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Youth group as gateway drug

Weve come to expect that their
youth group experiences often were a

decisive turning point in rabbis career
paths.
Whether it was NFTY (the Reform
movements National Federation of
Temple Youth), USY (the Conservative
movements United Synagogue Youth),
or NCSY (the Orthodox National Conference of Synagogue Youth), highlevel high school involvement in their
synagogue youth group often started
kids on the road that led to their denominations seminary.
Now, though, were noticing a new
trend, which raises the question: Which
youth group best prepares you for a
career as a legal marijuana icon?
The Forward recently reported on the
first catered Shabbat dinner prepared
by Jeff the 420 Chef.
Jeff grew up Orthodox, and credits
his first experience of pot to an NCSY
shabbaton when he was 16. No longer
Orthodox, he now prepares challah and
matzah balls infused with marijuana.
I know it sounds crazy, but I really
believe God and the universe is directing me, he told the Forward. People
love my cooking, and its all about
giving back. Every single one of us is
granted something special.
Meanwhile, JTA has profiled Dina
Its a story that

sounds almost biblical. A flood in Tbilisi
set the animals of the
citys zoo free.
So who better to
help with the cleanup
than the staff of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo?
Along with colleagues
from the Ramat Gan
Safari Park, they made
up an Israeli delegation of zookeepers and
veterinarians who flew
to Georgias capital
city to help make the
flooded zoo safe for staff and animals
as the water recedes.
For those watching at home on
Facebook, photos of bears and hippos roaming the streets of Tbilisi
were hilarious. But for the professionals, the events were serious.
Its a terrible shock, its a terrible
situation, the whole city is in chaos,
Sigalit Hertz-Dvir, the director of marketing at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo,
said. Its not only the animals that
died but they lost three members of
staff while trying to save the animals.
We thought they might need help
from outside because the situation is
horrible in the city.
The European Association of Zoos
and Aquaria said in a release that it
was shocked to hear of the flooding
of the city of Tbilisi and its zoo, which
resulted in the death of three members of zoo staff, and the escape and
shooting of many of its animals.
Tibilisi Zoo administrators said
that the zoo lost more than half of
its animals, including all its tigers,
and most of its lions and bears, when
flash flooding destroyed the animals enclosures. While some of the
animals escaped, most of the animals
drowned or were shot dead inside

the zoo park boundaries, according
to reports. Only three of the zoos
original 20 wolves and three of its 17
penguins survived.
Tbilisi zoo begged people not
to kill the animals unless they were
under attack, but many of the wild
animals were shot anyway.
Israels Ministry of Foreign Affairs
called on local zookeepers and veterinarians to assist their Georgian counterparts, and sent Dr. Nili Avni-Magen,
head veterinarian at the Jerusalem
Zoo, and Dr. Yigal Horowitz, chief
veterinarian of the Ramat Gan Safari,
to the wrecked zoo. They also sent
medical supplies
Zoo associations are all connected
and we have people learning together, working together, and [joining
forces] on the efforts for animals in
danger of extinction. Everything is
done together because no zoo can
succeed by itself, Hertz-Dvir said.
When a member of one of the zoo
organizations is in trouble, we do our
best to help. We feel we can help. We
have a lot of experience and knowledge in this area.
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She credits her career as a medical
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convention, where she spent the day
organizing Braille books at a charity
for the blind. Afterward, she said, she
was struck by how good helping others
made her feel.
I was learning about tzedakah and
giving back, she said. Thats what
started me in the industry Im in now.
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CONTENTS
NOSHES ...................................................4
ROCKLAND .......................................... 18
OPINION ............................................... 22
COVER STORY .................................... 28
GALLERY .............................................. 38
HEALTHY LIVING &
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TORAH COMMENTARY .................... 51
CROSSWORD PUZZLE .................... 52
ARTS & CULTURE .............................. 53
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Noshes
Just based on this headline, I feel like Im

back in 1992.
Former Jewish Standard reporter Josh Lipowsky reacting on Facebook to a
Times of Israel headline, Clinton, Bush say Israel ties will improve under their
reign, reporting on the White House bids of Hillary and Jeb.
IN HARMONY:
Bon Jovi pleased

to play Israel
Last week it was
announced that
the famous rock band
Bon Jovi will play Israel
on October 3, ending a
13-country tour in Tel
Aviv. MARCEL AVRAM, a
French producer who
worked out the concert
arrangements, told the
Times of Israel that Jon
[Bongovi] is very happy
to come, he really wants
to come, and that
David Bryan, the Jewish
Bon Jovi keyboardist,
speaks a little Yiddish
and is pleased about
coming to Israel.
BRYAN, who was
born DAVID BRYAN
RASHBAUM in 1962, has
known band lead singer
Jon Bongovi since high
school in Edison, and
they formed the band
together in 1982. Their
second album, released
in 1985, sold millions, and
the band has remained
very popular. In 2003,
Bryan told author SCOTT
BENARDE that he was
a lifelong member of his
New Jersey shul (Temple
Emanuel-El in Edison),
that his kids went to Hebrew school there, and
that he was his temples
High Holidays shofar
blower. He added, with
pride, that he thinks he
holds the shul and
maybe the world record for the longest
tekiah gadolah.
As you certainly
have heard,
American Pharoah, who
is owned by AHMED
ZAYAT of Teaneck, 52,
won the Belmont Stakes

on June 6, becoming the
first horse since Affirmed
in 1978 to win the Triple
Crown. Pharoahs win is a
triple of another sort. It is
the third time a horse
owned by a Jew won the
Crown. In 1943, the
winner was Count Fleet,
who was nominally
owned by FANNY
KESNER HERTZ (18911963). She was the
Jewish wife of the
horses real owner,
Jewish businessman
JOHN D. HERTZ (18791961), who was a cofounder of the famous
car rental company that
bears his name.
Affirmed was raced
under his stable name,
Harbor View Farm. The
co-owners of the farm
were famous businessman LOUIS WOLFSON
(1912-2007) and his second wife, PATRICE JACOBS WOLFSON, who
is now about 75. She was
in the stands at Belmont,
cheering for American
Pharoah.
Jenna Jameson,
often dubbed the
Queen of Porn, hit
social media recently to
announce that she is in
the process of converting to Judaism. Jameson,
who no longer acts in
adult films but still has
connections to the industry, reportedly is engaged to LIOR BITTON,
41, an Israeli who works
in the diamond business
in Los Angeles. She also
posted pictures of her
Marcel Avram
Ahmed Zayat
Lewis Black
Inside Out gives voice

to pre-teen emotions
Isla Fisher
Ivanka Trump
Shabbat table (laden

with challahs) and, in
later pics, a box of Israeli
popsicles and cholent
cooking in a slow cooker.
Forgive me if I just
dont get it. Every time
any celebrity is reported
to be converting to Judaism, the Jewish media
goes into a frenzy, as
it did last week about
Jameson, and the report
seems to thrill a huge
number of Jewish readers. However, in ten years
or more of covering Jewish celebs, I know of only
two celebs who were reported to be converting
to Judaism AND actually
completed a conversion:
actress ISLA FISHER,
39, and businesswoman
IVANKA TRUMP, 33.

There are a few other
famous people who
converted quietly and
their conversion became
known after the fact (like
CAMPBELL BROWN, 46,
former CNN anchor).
Much more often, the
report of a conversion
is outright false (not in
Jamesons case, since
the story comes from her
mouth) or the famous
person and the Jewish
partner break up before
the non-Jewish celeb
hasnt done much more
than making a few Shabbos dinners. In an inordinate number of cases the
conversion story involves
someone who is not
quite right. For example,
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Inside Out is a Pixar/Disney animated film that has

great advance buzz. The central character is Riley, an
11-year-old girl who is trying to adjust to her familys
move from the Midwest to San Francisco. The films
novel plot spin is that we hear Rileys emotions guiding her as she tries to cope with a new city and school.
The five main emotions are Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust,
and Sadness, voiced by Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, LEWIS
BLACK, 68, Mindy Kaling, and Phyllis Smith. RICHARD
KIND (Bing-Bong) and RASHIDA JONES (Cool Girl)
appear in supporting roles. (Opens Friday, June 19). N.B.
a few years ago, Lindsay
Lohan, during the height
of her addled period,
said she was converting
for her Jewish girlfriend
(never happened).
Likewise, during Britney
Spears mental meltdown
in 2008, she was dating a Jew and sported a
Star of David, prompting conversion stories.
Jameson isnt crazy, but
she is not quite right.
Here is a description of
her 2003 autobiography
from Wikipedia: It does
not omit sordid details,

describing her two rapes,
drug addictions, an unhappy first marriage, and
numerous affairs with
men and women.
So, I ask, whats the
thrill? What is there to
kvell about? I can understand the excitement
if an A-list non-Jewish
movie star was reported
to be converting, or if a
Nobel Prize winner became Jewish. But Jenna
Jameson?
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His place in Jerusalem
Bergenfields Rabbi Steven Burg to lead Aish HaTorah
LARRY YUDELSON
abbi Steven Burg is headed

back to Jerusalem next month.
Rabbi Burg, 43, spent two
years there after high school;
he spent another year there during his rabbinic studies, and he returned many times
during the time he worked for the Orthodox Union.
Now though, he will have a more prestigious address: 1 Kotel Plaza.
Thats how Aish HaTorah jokingly refers
to its headquarters in Jerusalems Old City,
which opens to the plaza of the Western
Wall, and whose rooftop looks down over
the Temple Mount.
Thats quite a draw for the fundraising
events that Rabbi Burg will oversee beginning July 1, as he assumes the post of Aishs
director general the Israeli term for chief
executive officer.
In that capacity, he will lead an organization that has grown over 40 years from
a small yeshiva to a large institution with
more than 30 outposts around the world.
Because Aish is a worldwide operation, Rabbi
Burg will be able to divide
his time between the Jerusalem headquarters and
the New York office. He
will not have to uproot his
family from its Bergenfield
Aish HaTorah headquarters in Jerusalem
home.
I have to figure out
what I want to do with my life.
neighborhood of
what the time commitments are, he said. On
He continued as an NCSY volunteer
Flatblush, Brooklyn.
the one hand, our heart
adviser during his rabbinic studies at
When he followed
and hub are in Jerusalem.
Yeshiva Universitys theological seminary.
his fathers footsteps
Rabbi Steven Burg
On the other, the branches
After ordination, he and his wife moved to
and attended Yeshiva
and board members and
Detroit, where he was an NCSY associate
Universitys MTA high
donors are in the States.
regional director. After a few years they
school, he didnt feel much passion. We
Aish HaTorah was founded in 1974 by
moved to Los Angeles, where he headed
were not particularly inspired by our Judaism, Rabbi Burg remembered.
Rabbi Noach Weinberg, who broke away
NCSYs West Coast region.
(Nonetheless, he and his wife, Rachel,
from the Ohr Samayach Yeshiva, which
Heres the story he tells to explain what
enrolled their two oldest sons at MTA.
he had co-founded. It was one of the
makes NCSY special:
Four younger children attend the Rosenfirst yeshivot to cater to baalei teshuva
We had as part of our region a girl from
baum Yeshiva of North Jersey in River
returnees to Orthodox Judaism. Rabbi
Charleston, West Virginia. She was the
Edge, where Ms. Burg teaches.)
Weinberg, born in America, had moved
only girl in her entire city in NCSY. She
Rabbi Burg found his passion for Judato Israel after his rabbinic training at Balcame to the regional convention, where
timores Ner Israel yeshiva, which his
ism in his post-high school years in yeshiva
we discussed plans for Shavuot: Kids were
brother, Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg, later
in Israel. He returned to America and
going to stay up all night studying back in
headed.
undergraduate studies at Yeshiva Univertheir synagogues. But we couldnt figure
sity caring about the Jewish people and
The school started in a little apartout how to make it work for her, and she
ment in the Old City, with a dormitory
about God.
went back home very dejected.
with freezing cold showers and bad food,
NCSY the Orthodox Unions youth
So one of the staff members put
Rabbi Burg said.
group became the vehicle where he
together a box of 15 books for her and
The core Rabbi Weinberg was focused
could put his passion into practice. A
wrote letters for her to open the entire
on was to create feeling Jews and passionfriend asked him to volunteer as an
night recommending readings. One for 11
ate Jews. Judaism doesnt work without
adviser at an NCSY Shabbaton a weekp.m., one for midnight, and so on. Afterend retreat. I drove eight hours to Pittsward, she said she didnt feel alone. She
inspiration, without passion, he added.
burgh, he said. I fell in love. I said this is
said she felt part of the Jewish people.
Rabbi Burg grew up in the heavily Jewish
Theres a real power in that.

That sort of work, inspiring teens, is the
core mission of an NCSY adviser. As Rabbi
Burg moved up the job ladder, his work
became more management. That was particularly true of his eight years as NCSYs
national director and then his four years
as the OUs managing director.
Two and a half years ago, Rabbi Burg
became head of the New York office of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Throughout my career Ive done a lot
of management, learning how to deal in
bureaucratic hierarchies. I have the Judaic
background, which enabled me to manage the people who were concentrated on
the Judaic and spiritual content, because
I knew what they wanted to accomplish.
I knew how all the stakeholders were
involved in the process, he said.
But the bottom line at the OU, and now
at Aish, is inspiration.
Inspiration is having a direct connection with God, becoming inspired by the
religion, rather than hanging out within
the religion because thats your social
circle. People are missing that direct
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connection to God, whether it comes
through prayer or Shabbos. Were trying
to create people who do it because they
care about the religion and care about the
reason, rather than just because their family has always done it.
When people are passionate about their
religion, when theyre inspired, when
theyre connected to God, religion takes
on a whole new level. It becomes part and
parcel of who they are.
Thats the ultimate goal: To help Jews
connect with God, he said.
Alongside Aishs expansion in recent
years has come a broadening of its focus.
Its no longer solely looking at the spiritual.
Rabbi Weinberg was also extremely
concerned about physical dangers to the
Jews, Rabbi Burg said. So we have the
Hasbara Fellowships, where we go to college campuses and recruit students to
go to Israel to meet with leaders so they
can go back to campus and fight the BDS
movement.
Rabbi Weinberg was a real visionary.
When he started talking about the physical dangers to Jews, not everyone was on
board, he said.
One example Rabbi Burg gives is the
Sderot Information Center, formed to tell
Aishs founder, Rabbi Noach Weinberg
the world about the plight of Israelis living under threat of missile fire from Gaza.
Rabbi Weinberg came up with the centers
initial funding.
He gave them a video camera and a car
to let the world know, Rabbi Burg said.
He came to the OU to talk about the dangers of radical Islam. He was so convinced
that this was an issue and that we had to
get behind it. He was way ahead of the
curve on it.
Rabbi Weinberg died in 2009. Rabbi
Burg compared Aishs founders focus
on both Jewish spirit and Jewish safety to
Moses own mission.
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I think its just different scholarly

opinions and stuff, Rabbi Burg said of
the controversy. Like in any academic
environment, there are people who go
back and forth. Anyway, the Bible codes
are just one piece of a much bigger
seminar.
How big is Aish? How does it compare
to the Orthodox Union?
The OU has part-time mashgichim
kosher supervisors all around the
globe, Rabbi Burg said. Aish probably
has more full-time people working for it.
In its real estate size and footprint, its
probably bigger than the OU. Aish has
multiple buildings and there are a number of places where the branches have
synagogues. Probably the amount of participants that go through Aish HaTorah is
much bigger and wide-ranging.
I compare it to the structure of Hillel,
the Jewish campus organization, where
each campus outpost is its own organization, connected to the mother ship back
in Washington, the Hillel International
headquarters.
A lot of funding comes locally, he
said. They are kind of independent in
how they put together their board, but
they all look to Aish in Jerusalem.
Moses is the one who gives the Jewish people the Torah, but he also saved
them from slavery, he said. If you want
to inspire people, you have to make sure
theyre alive.
At the heart of Aish, though, past the
Hasbara Fellowships, past the Jewish Internet content on Aish.com, You still have
the yeshiva, the place of learning. When
you go to Aish in Jerusalem, a whole section of the building is the executive learning center, for business executives who
come to learn with the rabbis. They understand that life is not just about money, that
the Torah has tremendous value. People
understand that becoming a more learned
Jew, a more educated Jew, will lead to great
things.
We have a tremendous amount of
classes. We have this Discovery Program, a
seminar for a couple of days where people
can learn a lot of incredible things, he said.
The Discovery Program has been criticized for its use of the Torah codes the
argument that patterns encoded in the
Torah prove its divinity. Published papers
arguing in favor of Torah Codes have been
rebutted by mathematicians who have
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ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
uy a $25 concert ticket and feed Israels needy.

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in Teaneck on Monday, June 22. Two shows that
night will spotlight 21 young music students of Ben
Hyman of Fort Lee at the same time that it raises money for
Leket Israel, Israels national food bank and largest food-rescue network.
Mr. Hyman who is a musician, a music teacher, and the
owner of BensGuitar.com explains that this will be the fifth
benefit concert he has staged with pupils, most of whom are
yeshiva day-school students.
I try to find a charity that has some type of relevance to
the children, Mr. Hyman said. Were fortunate to live in a
comfortable place, never worrying about how to get food on
the table, a roof over our heads, and clothing on our backs. I
want my students to be able to connect to children of the same
age who have a completely different kind of life without that
kind of security.
The first concert, in 2011, was the initiative of five bar mitzvah-age musicians four of them Mr. Hymans students who
raised $23,000 to buy equipment for the music-therapy program at Emunah Womens Bet Elazraki Childrens Home in
Netanya, Israel. The following year, Mr. Hyman took on the
project as a pilot, involving 13 of his students, and ultimately
raising another $32,000 for Beit El Ezaraki.
Altogether, the concerts have raised more than $90,000 for
charities, including the Hope & Heroes pediatric cancer program at Columbia University Medical Center.
This year, we decided to go with Leket because two of my
students Josh Levine of Teaneck on guitar, and Sam Goldberg of Englewood on piano recorded an album in my studio last year to benefit Leket, Mr. Hyman said. They had a
goal of $45,000 to buy a truck for food rescue, and they raised
$30,000, so I wanted to help them reach the goal.
Leket Israel founder and chairman Joseph Gitler said the
refrigerated truck is needed for a new initiative aimed at rescuing tons of usable food from several large Israel Defense
Forces bases.
The IDF takes good care of its soldiers, and that leads to
staggering amounts of food waste, as revealed in a recent state
comptrollers report, Mr. Gitler said. Weve been working
with the army for years, but over the past year we got permission to delve deeper and have formed relationships with many
more bases. The success of this project will add thousands of
quality meals to the poverty system on a daily basis.
To fund the entire IDF food-rescue project, Leket needs
approximately $280,000. The organizations annual budget
this year is about $10 million.
Both Mr. Hyman, 33, and Mr. Gitler, 40, spent their
From left, at last years show, Tzvi Bessler of Teaneck, Atara Schulhoff of Bergenfield, Matias Csillag of Englewood, Tamara Teplow of Teaneck, and Sam Goldberg of Englewood are onstage at Mexicali Live. This show
featured drummer Jon Shiffman of Steel Train and Bleachers.
From left, Adira Levine and Elana Ginsberg of

Teaneck, Sarah Schechter and Reed Leibowitz of
Englewood, and Evan Kinches of Teaneck perform
at the 2014 show.
formative years in Teaneck, but they never met one another

as they became increasingly active in charitable endeavors.
My mother used to take me to homeless shelters so that
I could see what it really means to be hungry, Mr. Hyman
said. We grow up in a world where its not fair if we dont
have the newest Apple product, because everyone else has
one. Seeing homeless children really showed me what it
means to actually have nothing. Ever since the first day we

visited the shelter I never forgot that there are people out
there who need help.
His parents, Reuven (Robert) and Nancy Hyman, now live
in Israel, as does his brother Yakir, whose band, G-Nome,
has been touring across the United States. His other brother,
Yaakov, lives in New York and works for BensGuitar.
As a young adult, Mr. Hyman played music in a nursing
home in Israel, volunteered as a music therapist at the JCC on
the Palisades Camp Dream Street, and volunteered at several
Artworks Express Yourself events sponsored by the Naomi
Cohain Foundation for children with serious illnesses.
Six years ago, he co-founded the Israel Service Organization with Jonathan Weiss. We raised roughly $150,000 and
performed three USO-style tours for the Israeli military, he
said. We met thousands of soldiers, and had a chance to
sleep on the bases, eat on the bases, and really get to spend
time with the soldiers in their own environment.
Mr. Gitler, a Moriah School of Englewood graduate, made
aliyah in 2000, founded Leket Israel (then called Table to
Table) in 2002, and won the 2011 Presidential Citation for
Volunteerism as well as the Nefesh BNefesh Builders of Zion
Award in 2014.
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With the help of more than 55,000 annual volunteers,

Leket rescues some 1.5 million hot meals and 24 million pounds of produce and perishable goods, and supplies 8,300 sandwiches to underprivileged schoolchildren every day. Food that would have otherwise gone
to waste is redistributed to 180 nonprofit organizations
caring for the needy, reaching approximately 140,000
people every week.
We want to thank Ben Hyman for choosing to support Leket Israel at this years charity concert, Mr.
Gitler said. We know that the students have been
working hard for many months to prepare for the performances, and knowing that they will enable Leket
Israel to rescue more food for those in need as a result
of the money they raise in ticket sales truly enhances
the event.
This year Mr. Hyman is expanding to three benefit
concerts. Mexicali Live doors open on June 22 at 5:45
for the concert by 10 middle-school students, and at
8 p.m. for the show by 11 high-school students. Then
well do an adult program sometime after the holidays
in October, he said.
He would not reveal the playlist but described it as a
mix of top-40 songs from different genres.
Several professional musicians helped the young performers rehearse for the shows, which are co-produced
by Lisa Schechter of Englewood. I always have one
parent to help me coordinate everything, from seats for
grandparents to getting food sponsors and promoting it
in school newsletters, Mr. Hyman said.
He added that when he was a boy, there was nothing
like this available to kids who were interested in pursuing music with the same passion that kids pursue middle- and high-school sports.
I decided 10 years ago to stop performing and pursue
teaching as my full-time business. I still remained active
with musicians within my network, but that became my
side thing, and my main business and focus became creating the absolute best music experience available for
local area kids. Ive been blessed to have overwhelming
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Local
Korean Christians reach out to Jewish neighbors

Cultural festival will be an extravaganza, says local rabbi
LOIS GOLDRICH
everal years ago, a group of

Korean Christians in New Jersey
sought a concrete way to show
their love for Israel and the Jewish people. Inspired by the words of Isaiah
40:1 Comfort, comfort my people, says
your God they came up with a plan.
We were praying for Israel, our minds
and hearts were toward the Jewish people,
but we didnt know what to do except for
just praying, said Changene Danny Song
of Tenafly, director of strategic planning
for Korean Christians for Shalom Jerusalem. The nonprofit organization is based
in Englewood Cliffs.
So we said, why dont we do a cultural
festival? Its a way of comforting Jewish people by inviting them, and for that moment,
they can have fun watching the show.
The festival, which includes traditional
Korean costumes, music, drama, and
dance, already has attracted large audiences at synagogues in New York City and
Washington, D.C. On June 24, it will take
place at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center.
Through these performances, KCSJ
wishes to build unity between the Jewish
community and Korean Christians, and
take a small but meaningful step towards
promoting stronger international support for the peace and security of Israel,
according to the groups website. It is
also intended to be a venue where deep
repentance is expressed for the unspeakable atrocities committed to the Jewish
people throughout history. It is a symbolic
but sincere action in hopes of a restoration of brotherhood.
Mr. Song said that his group advertises
the upcoming event to Korean Christians
throughout the world. Those who wish to
participate fly to New York at their own
expense. Between 100 and 150 performers and volunteers have flown in for previous shows.
They do their offering and donation,
said Mr. Song, whose organization hosts
the event.
KCSJ has a dual mission, he added. On
one hand, it reaches out to churches,
stressing the importance of Israel; on
the other, we approach Jewish people
to form friendships, express love, and
repent.
Repentance is a big part of each festival.
At the end of the program, a pastor takes
the stage to announce what Mr. Song calls
a statement of repentance. A rabbi then
comes up and accepts the statement.
Churches awakened to recognize the
importance of Israel get involved every
year, Mr. Song said, noting that while his
group began with the support of only a few
churches, it now has dozens of them supporting its efforts. While outreach used to
Above, the flags of Israel and Korea

are displayed during a festival performance by Korean Christians for
Shalom Jerusalem. Left, festival-goers
participate in traditional Korean dance.
focus mainly on the Korean community,

beginning this year, KCSJ will reach out to
Chinese and Japanese churches as well.
The show for next year will be different, Mr. Song said. A Chinese pastor will
take the stage to announce the statement
of repentance.
The cultural festival, now in its third
year, has been very successful, he continued. At first, we were afraid that we
wouldnt get many Jewish people. We were
told that the Jewish community is tightly
bonded, and it would be hard to bring in
an audience. Since our budget is tight, we
could do limited advertising.
They did receive help, however, from
several rabbis, including Rabbi Joseph
Potasnik, executive vice president of the
New York Board of Rabbis.

Rabbi Potasnik helped us a lot, Mr.
Song said. Indeed, the groups website
includes a quote from Potasnik, saying that
If we had people like these who would
stand up during the Holocaust, maybe
my family and so many others would have
been saved. These are people who are not
afraid to come forward and to raise their
voice to support for the state of Israel.
At first, Mr. Song said, the rabbis he
approached were skeptical.
They were cautious of these events
because Christian communities in the
past approached them to say we love you
but always had a hidden agenda to convert them or to have them do something
according to a Bible prophecy. They were
suspicious.
But they gave us a chance, he said,
and the results have been extremely positive. While the Korean group was told in
each community that turnout might be

low, attendance actually was quite high.
At a Brooklyn event, the congregation
was overcrowded. There were 1,500 people. We were amazed. Now we want to go
to all communities.
YouTube and social media have helped
as well. Thanks to a YouTube video, the
festival has been invited to Australia.
Mr. Song said the purpose of the festival is for Jews to feel happiness, have a
good time, and feel the show was nice.
Given that there is not much interaction
between Jewish and South Korean communities, he also hopes that a friendship
will ensue, where members of the two
communities will shake hands and talk
about ourselves.
Rabbi Ronald Roth, religious leader
of the Fair Lawn Jewish Center, where
the festival will take place, said that he
received an email from KCSJ, and then
he called the rabbis in those congregations where the group had previously
performed.
It sounded interesting, he said. Not a
stranger to evangelical Christian groups
performing pro-Israel programs his
What: Shalom Yerushalayim Cultural Festival

When: Wednesday, June 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Where: Fair Lawn Jewish Center, 10-10 Norma Ave., Fair Lawn
For information: Call the synagogue at (201) 796-5040 or go to its website, fljc.com
Local
Jewish Federation
A letter to the community
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey is proud to

support the State of Israel and its democratically elected
government. We reiterate our opposition to all attempts
to destabilize and delegitimize Israel through the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). We are
an independent member of the Jewish Federation/UJA
system located in, and representing, the local northern
A Korean dancer performs a traditional dance
at a synagogue.
previous pulpit was in Nashville, Tennessee he was
intrigued by the mission of KCSJ, which has positive
feelings toward the Jewish people and feel very positive toward the state of Israel. They feel terrible about
the Holocaust and have said the Christians have to
take responsibility and apologize for the lack of protest by churches during that time.
Noting that the group does not have that much
familiarity with individual Jews, he said, they are
trying to change that. And because there is a large
Korean Christian community in New Jersey, we felt
strongly that this would be important to help us create connections.
Rabbi Roth said he spoke with Rabbi Bruce Lustig of
the Reform Washington Hebrew Congregation, which
recently hosted the cultural festival and plans to invite
the group again.
He was very positive about it, Rabbi Roth said,
affirming his belief that KCSJ has neither a political
nor a religious agenda.
The rabbi said the festival will be an extravaganza
a big production. The effort theyre putting into this
is tremendous, and its free and open to the public.
They are assuming the costs of production. That is an
indication of how strongly they feel.
Among other events, the festival will feature a tradition Korean costume fashion show; a nonverbal
nanta performance, integrating Korean tradition
rhythms with comedy and drama; a musical performance, and a Taekwondo martial arts dance.
We as Jews should recognize that we have allies in
the Christian community, Rabbi Roth said. There are
strong supporters of Israel in the Christian community, especially here in northern New Jersey. There
are Christians who when they read the Bible recognize that this is the story of our people and take it
seriously as a precursor to their religion. They have
a strong love of the Jewish people and the State of
Israel. Today, when Israel is the target of worldwide
efforts to isolate it, this is especially important, he
said.
It will be a spectacular, memorable evening,
Rabbi Roth concluded.
New Jersey community. We stand firmly with the Israeli

government in support of the Jewish State.
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Jason M. Shames
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Paramus
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Wheels for Meals rides for Meals on Wheels

Last Sunday, 320 riders pedaled courses ranging from three to 50 miles, and they were
joined by dozens of walkers and masses of
enthusiastic onlookers at the fifth annual
Wheels for Meals Ride to Fight Hunger.
The fundraiser was a project of the Jewish
Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson;
it supports JFSs Meals on Wheels program
and its community food pantry. Last year, JFS
delivered 28,000 nutritionally balanced meals
to the homebound elderly and to disabled Bergen County residents.
This year, the three-mile course was dedicated to the memory of Cindy Pikul, a former
ride marshal and triathelete who died of cancer last year.
The day included music and a DJ, as well as
exhibits by vendors. Corporate sponsors provided both money and goods and services.
So far, JFS has raised nearly $120,000 from
participants and sponsors. It will accept donations until the end of the year at www.ridetofighthunger.com.
Riders are raring to start the 10 mile ride.
Robert Feuerstein, David Feuerstein, ABC Newss Lori Stokes, who rode on
Sunday, JFSs executive director, Susan Greenbaum, and the president of
its board, Shira Feuerstein, stand together at the race.
Andrew Gould, Randy Breindel, Mara Miller, Dan Dean, and Dave Schwartz were ride
marshals.
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Volunteers, including this group, made the day go smoothly.
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Sides clash in conversion therapy trial

Plaintiffs cite science, defendants note biblical bans on homosexuality
ROBERT WIENER
wo highly different views of

homosexuality are being heard
in Hudson County Superior
Court in Jersey City, where four
gay men and two of their mothers are suing
a local Orthodox-based group that claims to
help individuals conquer their homosexual
desires.
The plaintiffs, three former Orthodox Jews
and one Mormon, alleged that promises that
JONAHs leaders made about undoing their
same-sex attractions failed, causing them
misery and embarrassment.
The lawsuit is the latest court battle over
so-called conversion therapy, a practice that
gay rights groups are trying to ban in more
than a dozen states. In 2013, Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation banning gay-to-straight
conversion therapy for minors in New Jersey.
The plaintiffs are suing under a tough New
Jersey statute against consumer fraud. They
argue that the treatment methods used by
JONAHs counselors not only were ineffective, they also were painful, humiliating, and
torturous.
The group, whose name is an acronym for
Jews Offering New Alternatives for Homosexuality, a name it once used in full, marketed
its services to young Orthodox men.
One plaintiff, a former Lubavitcher chasid
named Chaim Levin, told the jury that at a
weekend therapy session JONAH participants reenacted a scene from my childhood
abuse, in which an older cousin demanded
oral sex. Mr. Levin said that rabbis and JONAH
representatives told him that the abuse had
made him gay.
The plaintiffs Mr. Levin, Benjamin Unger,
Sheldon Bruck, and Michael Ferguson, as
well as Mr. Levins and Mr. Brucks mothers,
are represented by the Southern Poverty Law
Center, a civil rights organization based in
Montgomery, Ala.
In his opening argument on June 3, SPLC
deputy legal director David Dinielli said that
the plaintiffs are gay, and were defrauded
by a promise of spending money to turn
them from gay to straight. He said that those
who dropped out of JONAHs two- to fouryear program were told they were destined
for sad, lonely lives, with the possibility of
depression, suicide, pedophilia, and dying of
AIDS.
Charles LiMandri of the California-based
Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund
opened for the defense.
Mr. LiMandri argued that for most of the
time they were involved with JONAH, the
plaintiffs were pleased to be moving away
from the same-sex attractions that brought
them into conflict with their deep-seated
beliefs and their lives as religious Jews.
In his testimony, Mr. Unger said that in
2007, when his parents enrolled him in
JONAH, he had been a 19-year-old modern

Orthodox Jew. He believed that his religious
destiny included marrying a woman and
fathering children. But when he started to
develop same-sex attractions, I began having stress, which continued to grow and turn
into depression while he was attending yeshivas in Brooklyn and Jerusalem, he testified.
Mr. Ungers most emotional moments on
the witness stand came when he told the jury
that JONAH leaders suggested that his close
relationship with his mother was a major
cause of his homosexuality.
During group therapy sessions, he was
instructed to put a pillow on the floor, imagine it to be his mother, and smash it repeatedly with a tennis racket.
Frequently wiping tears from his eyes,
Mr. Unger told the jury how disturbed he
felt at going through all of this because of
my mom. I was horribly cold to her. She
turned to me one day and said, What did I
do wrong? and I didnt know how to answer.
That was the lowest point in my relationship
with my mom.
Under cross-examination by Mr. LiMandri,
Mr. Unger acknowledged that he wrote positive emails about JONAH on a listserv for participants in the program, but said he became
increasingly disillusioned and depressed
until he left JONAH after 11 months there.
Now, at 27, Mr. Unger said, he is no longer Orthodox, has a close relationship with
his mother, works as a bartender, and fully
accepts himself as a gay man.
On the trials second day, a lawyer for the
plaintiffs, Lina Bensman, pointed out that
Arthur Goldberg, JONAHs co-director, was
a disbarred attorney. He had headed a New
York underwriting firm, and in 1989 he was
incarcerated for six months on federal tax
fraud and conspiracy charges.
Ms. Bensman asked why Mr. Goldberg
occasionally had identified himself as a doctor, although he was not a physician and had
not earned a Ph.D.
I am a JD, a juris doctor, Mr. Goldberg
said. (New lawyers are granted the JD degree
when they graduate from law school. It is not
common for them to call themselves doctors,
although it is not inaccurate for them to do
so.)
Mr. Goldberg also acknowledged that he
used the title rabbi on occasion, although
he was not ordained.
I was not a rabbi, he said. I have no formal religious training other than going to a
yeshiva in grade school.
I have never been a licensed counselor,
he added. I give advice.
But after being shown a signed document
projected on a video screen, Mr. Goldberg
acknowledged he had applied to the American Psychotherapy Association to become a
certified relationship specialist and a certified
professional counselor.
As he pointed to photographs of his clients, plaintiffs lawyer David Dinielli said

JONAH officials warned them they were destined for sad lonely lives if they
quit the program.
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But these certifications were revoked?

Ms. Bensman asked.
Yes, maam he replied.
And the certifications read, I certify I have
not been convicted of a felony?
That is correct, he said.
Under questioning by his own attorney,
Mr. Goldberg said he believed that his felony fraud and conspiracy convictions were
essentially nullified more than 20 years after
his guilty pleas in 1989, allowing him to check
no on the application.
Did you ever use these titles after they
had withdrawn the certification? his lawyer
asked.
I did not, Mr. Goldberg said.
Mr. Goldberg described himself as an
Orthodox Jew, and a former president of Congregation Mount Sinai in Jersey City.
His intention, he said, is to help people
achieve their personal goals. We want to
help people overcome their homosexual feelings in a Torah-true way.
What do you mean by a Torah-true way?
his attorney asked
It means following the written Torah,
which is the Five Books of Moses. We look at
it from a religious belief system of what the
Torah says, he said.
Mr. Goldberg said he found the term gay
conversion therapy a particularly obnoxious phrase.
In all the history of Judaism we were

forced to convert many times, he said. I
believe in free choice. God has given us free
choice. If people are happy being gay, Ill use
a Yiddish phrase: Gei gezunterheit Go
and be happy.
On June 11, the former president of the
American Psychiatric Association testified
that generally, it is unethical to engage in gay
conversion and reparative therapies because
of the potential of harm to patients.
Any treatment that is based on the
assumption that homosexuality is a mental
disorder or is based on the assumption that
the patient should change his or her sexual
orientation is by its nature unethical, Dr.
Carol Bernstein said.
She said that traumatic re-enactments,
along with the use of nudity, blindfolding, and shouting obscenities, could harm
patients, and its use by APA members and
would be grounds for expulsion from the
professional association.
The next day, an unlicensed life coach who
said he treated hundreds of JONAHs Orthodox clients defended his methods, although
Dr. Bernstein branded them as unethical.
Why does the therapy include being
naked with other men? one of the plaintiffs attorneys, James Bromley, asked Alan
Downing.
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BCHSJS gala dinner honors six

The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies recently held its annual gala
at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel. The schools principal and director, Bess Adler, was the emcee, Rabbi Ronald Roth gave the invocation, and board president Elayne Kalina welcomed the group.
Lillian and Melvin Solomon of River Edge and Susan Black-Castiel and Moshe
Castiel of Woodcliff Lake were the galas honorees, Rabbi Ely Allen of Bergenfield received a special recognition award and Walter Ramsfelder of Teaneck
was given a distinguished service award.
From left, Moshe and Alexandra Castiel, Susan Black-Castiel, Elayne Kalina,
Simon Castiel, and Bess Adler.
Lillian and Melvin Solomon, Elayne Kalina, and Bess Adler.
Rabbi Dr. Wallace Greene, left, with Elayne Kalina, Bess Adler, and
Rabbi Ely Allen.
Elayne Kalina, Walter Ramsfelder, Bess Adler, and Steven Prystowsky.

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New principal at Golda Och Academy

Ms. Stodolski comes to the
principal at the Taktse
school with 26 years of experiInternational School in
ence in private schools. Under
Gangtok, India.
the leadership of the acadMs. Stodolski received
emys head of school, Rabbi
a bachelors degree from
Marc Baker, Ms. Stodolski was
Swarthmore College and
the assistant head of school,
a masters in educational
dean of studies, and math
leadership from the Klingenstein Center of Teachdepartment chair at the Gann
Christine Stodolski
ers College at Columbia
Academy, a Jewish high school
COURTESY GOLDA OCH
University. In 2011, she
in Waltham, Mass. Before that,
was awarded a National
she was an assistant head of
Association of Independent Schools felschool at the Meridian Academy, an independent school affiliated with the Coalilowship for aspiring heads of school.
tion of Essential Schools in Brookline,
She will begin her new position on
Mass. She was also the acting assistant
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Belle Rosenbloom named

Hadassah Woman of Valor
The dinner, catered by
Maadan Caterers, included
a power point presentation
on Ms. Rosenblooms longstanding involvement with
Hadassah and her commitment to Israel. Fellow
chapter members Rhoda
Fried and Millie Lerman
spoke about her chapter
achievements.
The groups annual ad
calendar, a major fundraiser, was distributed to
attendees.
Belle Rosenbloom of Hackensack, left, formerly of
Paramus, accepts a Hadassah Woman of Valor certificate from Paramus-Bat Sheva Hadassah chapter
president Chana Yahalom at a dinner honoring her
at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah.
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Leaving New Square
JOANNE PALMER
hat do you do if you start to realize that

you simply cannot live in the culture that
surrounds you?
If you come to understand, slowly at
first and then with increasing speed and no little horror,
that your world doesnt have the right kind of oxygen for
your lungs to breathe? That you will choke and sputter
and eventually cease to be if you stay there?
That you have to leave your whole life behind your
wife, your children, your parents, your siblings and that
you risk losing them forever?
You have to be really certain that you cannot live as you
have been living to risk ending your life as you know it.
Thats what Shulem Deen did, as he chronicles in his
memoir, All Who Go Do Not Return, and as he discussed
in a recent phone interview.
His world was New Square, in Rockland County; he
was a Skverer chasid, a transplant from Brooklyn, the son
of people who had made their own way to the chasidic
world. He had been an enthusiastic chasid, a true believer,
even an enforcer, someone who kept an eye out for other
peoples infractions.
But he also had doubts, and as they filtered into his
mind they expanded and tormented him, and eventually
pushed him out.
None of his children

speak to him today;
he hopes that some
day that will
change. What has
not changed is his
love for them. That
will never change.
rueful, painful, deeply reflective

story of a man whose heart and
brain, working together, left him
no option but to quit the only life
hed known.
The narrative is fairly straightforward. Mr. Deen, the child of a
brilliant but troubled father, who
died young of what seems to have
been anorexia nervosa, who loved
his children but loved his studies
and his communion with his God
more, and a mother whose story
he leaves largely untold, clearly out
of love, was himself (as he does not
say but anyone reading his story
must see) brilliant. He was avid in
Shulem Deen, left, as a Skverer chasid and right, as he looks today.
everything he did, and after some
early missteps he planted himself
firmly in the Skverer world. He
married a woman he did not love, after having met her
the community a low-paying job or you study in a kolonce, an episode he describes in cringe-making detail in
lel and get a stipend for that.
his book. (In his book, he mentions her only respectfully;
As an economic model, I think that it is very poorly
she is, after all, the mother of his children.) He had five
thought out. It seems like there is nobody giving serious
children; he would have had more if he had not refused,
thought to how this is going to play out over the next few
because he could not support them.
decades. People are making choices for themselves. Some
None of his children speak to him today; he hopes that
young men in Brooklyn are deciding that they will go get
some day that will change. What has not changed is his
college degrees. What is really sad is that they decide that
love for them. That will never change.
after they already have three children.
In conversation, Mr. Deen talks about the community
Things are changing, but I dont think the model is sushe left.
tainable. I think we will see an organic evolution, but there
One of the basic problems it faces is that it is not ecowill be some painful periods, and some casualties.
nomically sustainable, he said. Young men are expected
Chasidim used to have a stronger work ethic, he conto continue their studies of Jewish text, even after they are
tinued. There was not this wholesale reliance on govmarried, even after they become fathers. They are given
ernment benefits. My understanding is that they had not
stipends, but there is no obvious source of funding beyond
become as sophisticated as they are now in incorporating
government aid.
government programs in their economic model.
Historically, the men used to work, Mr. Deen said. In
In New Square, the first thing every young couple does
the 1950s, the 60, the 70s, even the 80s, there were hunis apply for food stamps and Medicaid, Mr. Deen said.
dreds of chasidic men working in places like the diamond
Thats true of every family, and it is absolutely a matter
district. Mostly, they wouldnt go to college; they wouldnt
of course. When I got married in 1993, my kallah his
be professionals, but they would do things like diamond
bride already had taken care of it. It is one of the womcutting, skilled labor. Some would computer programens jobs. In preparation for marriage, the kallah goes to
ming and engineering would be a little on the fringe, but
the social services office and applies for food stamps and
acceptable. Accounting was acceptable.
Medicaid. Thats how it works.
To some extent that still is true, he said, but most of
So what happens is that you present people with
those jobs require training, even college, and such educathe idea that this is doable, that you dont need to get a
tion is discouraged. Instead, mostly you get a job within
college degree, that we will give you some money, and
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Mr. Deen is a heretic now, he says, but he still is a Jew.

He is a gifted writer too, so his memoir unlike so many
others from people who are off the derech, who have
left the straight, clearly marked path that was laid out
for them is not filled with cartoon villains and gaudily signposted emotional reactions. It is, instead, the
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Former chasid Shulem Deen talks about his memoir and his life
there is some help from

the government, and you
are young and think that
it makes sense. And then
you have kids, and you see
that it does not work. And
what do you do now?
It is devastating to
many people to realize
that they do not have
options.
So that is the economic
pressure under which
people live. There is also
the pressure from the
outside world pushing
in on them.
The Internet is seeping in, Mr. Deen said.
They are putting up
ever taller barriers, but
the barriers are not
solid. They are not concrete. No matter what
strictures the community tries to enforce,
some people find a
way around them, he
said.
He talked about other specifics of life as a Skverer.
The issue of men and women walking on opposite
sides of the street, which, he said, had been limited
to New Square but now is finding its way to Kiryas
Joel, started around 2000, when the signs first
went up.
The interesting thing is that at first the signs were
not official, he said. I remember how it happened.
One person in New Square decided that it would be a
good idea, kind of like a public service. Nobody liked
it when the genders get mixed up on the sidewalk,
and this way it would be like on the subway, where
the signs say one side for up and one side for down.
It was men on this side, women on the other. It was a
convenience.
The sign went up and nobody objected. What kind
of objection could the chasidim of New Square have?
So eventually it just became a fixture, and now it is
there.
In general, the strict gender separation is in place
because it goes straight to the fear of sex and the
power of sex, he said. Women represent sexuality
to religious men and to the codifiers of religious law.
To the ultra-Orthodox chasidic men of today, it can
be a 90-year-old woman or a 3-year-old girl. They all
represent sexuality.
When you are a 15-year-old boy and you are told to
repress every notion of sexuality, and you are so afraid
of your own hormonal urges, it is natural that when
you walk on the street, you keep your eyes averted
from everything female. You just dont want to go
there. It can destroy you forever.
There are some advantages to being a woman in that
culture, though. I have two sons, and neither one
could have a conversation in English, he said. They
cannot speak, write, or read English.
My daughters can. The boys study Talmud from 6
in the morning to 10 at night. The girls do not get a
good or robust education, but I could take my daughters to the library in secret and they could read there.
They know something about the outside world.
The gap between the girls and boys in their knowledge of the outside culture is tremendous. Because
there is so much separation

between the genders, they
inhabit different worlds.
Mr. Deen did not leave his
community because of its
failing economic model or
its strictures about gender
separation, though. He left
it because he stopped believing that the world was constructed in the way that he
was taught it was. He stopped
believing in God, and when he
lost that belief, he lost everything that the belief supported.
It is psychically and morally
destructive to live like that,
pretending to believe something when you really do not,
Mr. Deen said. The real shame
is that there are hundreds of
people in that same place, but
they cant make the move out.
They just cant. Thats whats
really terrible about trapping
people in an environment that
is so rejectionist and isolationist, with no way out.
Still, though, Mr. Deen is Jewish. My Jewishness not my Judaism but my Jewishness is
the most important part of my identity. Maybe my maleness
is even more important, but my identity as an American,
a New Yorker, a Brooklynite nothing is more important
than my Jewishness. I have had to find a way to embrace it,
to find a way to celebrate my Jewishness, things related to
Jewish culture and history and peoplehood, things that are
separate from religion.
Sometimes Mr. Deen does go to shul, almost despite
The gap between the

girls and boys in
their knowledge of
the outside culture is
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Because there is so
much separation
between the
genders, they inhabit
different worlds.
himself. At the end of the book, he describes himself
in a liberal Upper West Side synagogue on a Friday night, listening to the words and music of kabbalat Shabbat, holding
the siddur, crying, his tears dripping down onto the page,
blurring the words, words that of course he has no need to
read because they live deep inside him. (Although he does
not mention it in the book, that shul was Congregation Bnai
Jeshurun, which is known for the intensity and beauty of its
music.)
Prayer is a meditative experience. There is something
about the mythological that human beings always have been
attracted to, and prayer is the essence of it, he said. In fact,
he has looked for spirituality in other places, outside the formal Jewish world, but has not been able to find it there. The
earnest self-consciousness of spiritual seekers put him off.
For the first few years, I just didnt know how to hold
these two sides his yearning for Jewish expression and
his rejection of his past in one. I didnt know how to contain them both.
But now I live with that tension. Living with tension is a
challenge, but as modern people, its something we have to
do. Theres no real way to get away from it.
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July 31, the shuls mens club has a trip
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The Adult Learning Center of Rockland,
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There is an open house the first
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ADL slams Rockland candidate ad

as anti-Orthodox and negative
The Anti-Defamation League is slamming an advertisement for a candidate
for Rockland County sheriff as highly
offensive for its negative portrayal of
chasidic Jews.
The ad for Richard Vasquez includes
a photograph of Lou Falco, the countys
current sheriff, surrounded by Orthodox
Jews, as a narrator says the sheriff has
refused to enforce illegal housing laws.
The video, titled Where Does Louis
Falco Stand on Illegal Housing?, purportedly was posted on the Internet by
the Rockland Republican Party, according to the ADL.
We find the use of an image of visibly
identifiable Jews in this campaign video to
be deeply troubling, highly offensive, and
inappropriate, as it essentially blames the
Orthodox Jewish community for the substandard and illegal housing problems in
Rockland, the ADLs New York regional
director, Evan Bernstein, said in a statement. Voters should be encouraged to
make decisions about candidates based

upon their qualifications and political
positions, not on the basis of race or religion without offensive insertions ascribing blame on an issue to a particular religious group.
Rockland County, which is estimated
to be one-third Jewish and includes the
chasidic village of New Square and the
sprawling Orthodox community of Monsey, has seen intense infighting between
the burgeoning Orthodox population and
local opponents. A major focus has been
the East Ramapo public school board,
which has a chasidic majority that has
been stripping local public school budgets
and selling off public school buildings to
yeshivas at cut-rate prices.
We urge Mr. Vasquez to edit the video
and make clear that the crux of his campaign and this county issue has nothing to do with the Rockland Jewish community, Bernstein said in the statement.
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Eldest son of Vizhnitz rebbe dies unexpectedly

The eldest son of the Vizhnitz chasidic
sects grand rabbi died unexpectedly on
June 4. He was 67.
Rabbi Pinchas Shulem Hager, whose
father, Rabbi Mordechai Hager, is the
international grand rabbi of the Vizhnitz
chasidic sect, died after back surgery at
Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
Hager, known for officiating at many
Vizhnitz weddings, served as the rabbi of
the Vizhnitz Monsey Kehilla in the Boro
Park section of Brooklyn, according to
various media outlets. He also ran several Vizhnitz educational institutions in
Boro Park.
The funeral was held on the afternoon of June 4 in Boro Park, and a
funeral procession in the predominantly Vizhnitz village of Kaser, where
the grand rabbi lives, drew thousands
of people. Hager was buried in the
Viznitz Cemetery on Route 306, near
the Brick Church Cemetery in Monsey.
Hager is survived by a wife, nine children, and many grandchildren. According to the Journal News, the family is
related by marriage to the Twersky
family, which leads the Skverer sect in
New Square.
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Editorial
Thoughts on identity
his has been a season to

think about identity, Jewish
and otherwise.
A few weeks ago, we were
introduced to Caitlyn Jenner, who
has taken up residence in the body
formerly belonging to sports-iconturned-Kardashian Bruce Jenner.
The overwhelmingly vast majority
of us feel at home with our genders.
We might chafe against some of the
assumptions and expectations that
come along with them, but we do not
question whether we really are girls or
boys, women or men. Transgendered
people, like Ms. Jenner, however, feel
very strongly that their assigned genders do not fit their souls. A transman
or womans understanding of him or
herself, before transition, is wildly at
odds with what the world sees. Those
of us who are not transgender cannot understand the urge to hack at
our bodies to change who we are, but
certainly we can believe that the urge
must be incredibly strong. The only
possible reason to take such a drastic
step is if you know, from the bottom
of your soul, that your true identity
is belied and denied by the body into
which you were born.
Do not assume that Jews are
immune from the body dysmorphia
that drives transgendered people.
Consider, among many other less public transpeople, Joy Ladin. Dr. Ladin,
who holds the David and Ruth Guttesman Chair in English at Yeshiva Universitys Stern College for Women and
is the first open transperson to teach
at an Orthodox university, was born
Jay. She writes about her transition
with great sensitivity in her memoir,
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish
Journey Between Genders.
Caitlyn Jenner, who has brought
the idea of transgender to popular
culture, is an odd and perhaps unfortunate representative. She seems to
have shed her old identity so thoroughly that not only is her gender
new, but her age is as well. She does
not look 65, except perhaps in dog
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a woman apparently she thinks that
it means posing in her underwear.
But as a Kardashian, even by marriage, her relationship with privacy is
unconventional. Boundaries are not
their strong point.
Ms. Jenner was able to change
her public identity to make it match
her inner one because her identity
involved only herself. Her change
was not hidden, she did not lie about
who she had been, she had to go
through all sorts of trials to attain it,
and it took a long time.
It is not entirely unlike becoming
Jewish.
Next, there is Rachel Dolezal. Her
transformation from very white to
at least part black is not at all like
Caitlyn Jenners, because it is based
on lies. It is fascinating to see her
story continue to unfold, its operatic
details sprawling into lurid melodrama. But some facts are clear. You
can estrange yourself from your parents, but you cannot rid your body
of their DNA. Their genes are your
genes. You cannot will yourself into
another race. You can color your hair
and darken your skin; you can say
that you grew up in a teepee in South
Africa and were disciplined with an
baboon whip. You can say that a
random black man is your father. It
doesnt work.
You can change your present and
your future, but you cannot change
your past.
It is interesting to watch all this as
Jews. We are a race but we are also a
religion and a people. There is no one
definition of a Jew like blackness, it
is often traced through bloodlines.
Historically, in the United States, a
person was black if he or she had one
drop of blood that could be traced
to someone of sub-Saharan African
descent. That means that people who
looked white could pass they could
pretend to be white but often only
if they were willing to cut themselves
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a Jew, even if no one else on the tree
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For a decade or so now we have
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the problem that Rachel Dolezal
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What do we do when all of a sudden
people want to join us?
We have been a socially undesirable
group for much of our history. People
have wanted to leave Judaism for the
wide outside world, just as they have
wanted to pass as white, to flee the
social bondage that comes with being
black.
But now people want to be Jewish. People want to be black. Thats
amazing.
Identity comes from within. It
comes with birth. It can be rigid. It
also can be flexible. Its barriers change
the way to become a Jew now is
not what it was during the talmudic
period, and nothing like it was during
biblical times. As Shulem Deens story
shows (see page 18), sometimes even
changing your identity within the Jewish world is a struggle.
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redefine ourselves as Jews (modern
Orthodox, cultural, yeshivish, traditional egalitarian, chasidic, Reconstructionist, right-wing Reform, bageland-lox, just for starters), lets figure
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Zionism is
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ttention world. You have it all wrong.

The so-called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, the Palestinian propaganda
machine, and even some prominent media
entities have sold you a bill of goods. The goal is to spread
the notion that Israel and by extension the Jewish people is racist. Apartheid is their preferred word, but it
is merely a euphemism for racism. Not wanting to say
that Jews are racist, they choose the word Zionist instead.
Sadly, too many Jews (especially young Jews) have
bought into this calumny, as well, world, so you are not
alone. Not too long ago, an advocate for one of the slates
in the just-ended World Zionist Congress elections stood
before a roomful of synagogue members to make a pitch
for that slate. This person began by asking everyone in
the room who was Jewish to raise a hand. All hands went
up. Second, he asked for all
who supported the State of
Israel to raise their hands. All
hands went up.
Then he asked for all
who were Zionists to raise
their hands and too many
hands did not go up. There
were Jews in the room who
were wholehearted in their
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support for Israel, but who
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thought Zionism is a dirty
word.
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European?
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not. There are Chinese Jews and Japanese Jews, Chilean
Jews and Brazilian Jews, Ethiopian Jews and Yemenite
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Dios; some pray to Gott, while others pray to God, and still
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language that is different. Jews live on all continents and
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In fact, Jews come in all shapes, sizes, and colors,
and have customs so divergent as to be unrecognizable to other Jews. Still, they are Jews, and as Jews, they
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including that Jewish community known as the State of
Israel. Their children may intermarry and their progeny can grow up to be prime minister or president of
the Jewish state, and no one will go into mourning over
any of it.
They can do that because there is a Jewish state, the
product of a belief held over the millennia by all of their
ancestors that one day the Jewish people would return
to their ancient homeland. In the late 19th century, that
belief got a name: Zionism.
Zionism requires Israels acceptance of all Jews,
regardless of who they are, where they come from, or
what the color of their skin is. Sure, Ashkenazi Jews have
an air of superiority toward Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews,
but that is more political than anything else. Such artificial divisions disappear when circumstances demand. If
Jews are in danger in Russia, the Jewish state, the Zionist state, is obligated to come to their rescue as it did.
If Jews are in danger in Ethiopia, the Jewish state, the
Zionist state, is obligated to come to their rescue as it
did. Jews worldwide contributed millions to do so in all
such instances.
Racism means discrimination or bigotry based on a
belief that certain races are inferior. Which race do Jews
consider inferior? The question is absurd, because there
probably is not a single race on the planet that does not
have its Jews, and representatives of each race live in
the State of Israel.
For Jews to consider any race as inferior is for them
to consider part of their family inferior. This does not
mean that no Jew is a racist. There are a few of them out
there, even in Israel. Some of these Jews are even antiSemitic, meaning they hate other Jews. Hatred crosses
all boundaries. For most Jews, however, racism is the
one type of hatred that makes no sense whatsoever.
Family is family.
Zionism, Bayard Rustin, the great black leader of a
past generation, once noted, is not racism, but the
legitimate expression of the Jewish peoples self-determination. As a people, we self-determined a definition
for ourselves. A Jew is someone who is born of a Jewish
mother, or who converted to Judaism according to prescribed rules.
Not every Jew today accepts that definition, just as
not every stream of Judaism (or even segments of each
stream) have the same set of prescribed rules, but the
State of Israel does. That does not make it racist; it
makes it selective. The U.S. Supreme Court in a variety
of cases (including one of the most recent, Nguyen v.
INS, 533 U.S. 53 in 2001) accepted selective standards as
constitutionally valid for defining who is a natural-born
citizen of the United States.
Indeed, selectivity is common to all states. The United
States, for example, will send its immigration agents into
the barrios of California and Texas to search out illegal
Mexicans. Does that make the United States racist?
Israel will let anyone become a citizen; it merely gives
Jews a fast track to citizenship. There are Muslims and
Christians who are Israeli. They can vote; they can be
elected; they can serve.
In Saudi Arabia, anyone who is not a Muslim cannot
be a citizen, much less vote, be elected, and serve. Does
that make Saudi Arabia racist?
Jordan some years ago passed its own brand of The
Law of Return, in which it fast-tracks Palestinians to
citizenship unless they also happen to be Jewish. Does
that make Jordan racist?
If you bought into the calumny, world, forget the hype
and look at the facts.
If you are Jewish and have come to believe Zionism is
an evil racist doctrine, visit Israel, walk down any street,
and think long and hard about what you saw.
Israel running like a river through it

A mothers thoughts on her daughters
imminent return from the gap year
y daughter says shes all packed.

Her duffle bags are a couple of kilos overweight, and shes fretting about what she may
have to leave behind. Tomorrow night, she
departs for Ben Gurion, and from there she gets on an El Al
flight bound for Newark. I havent seen her since last August.
Im counting down the hours.
Time flies. Despite all my fears, despite fountains of words
and gushers of anxiety over sending her to Israel during the
war in Gaza last summer, she had an incredible year, and now
she is making her way back.
She spent the last ten months living in Jerusalem. O, JerusaO, Jerusalem
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lem, center of the world, Holy of Holies. In Jerusalem, everything you do matters, from the mundane to the insane. Every
time you kick a pebble in Jerusalem, it rolls up against a site
I can clearly remember how it felt, coming back to Chicago after my year in Israel, where even collecting eggs for
of historical importance; turn down any street, and you will
the kibbutz felt significant. In my absence so many things
find better kosher food than we have anywhere in America;
had changed. Disco took over the radio. Threes Company
day and night, and all year long, there are unique and mindand The Love Boat were the biggest hits on television.
expanding activities right outside your door.
People cared about designer names on the labels sewed into
The clothes you wear take on significance. Skirt or pants?
their clothes. Friends who had started college
Cover your hair or not? Fascinating people,
instead of going to Israel had moved on with
of all colors and races, from a kaleidoscope of
their lives. Some werent religious anymore.
distant countriesand these people are Jewish! strike up conversations with you, on the
Some were getting married. Some were completely absorbed in boyfriends, or new acquainstreet, in the market, on the bus. Spend a few
tances. My parents couldnt understand why I
minutes chatting with the baker, the man who
was so moody. I spent a lot of time in my room
fixes your shoes, the police officer, your barber,
playing guitar and singing sad songs. I felt
your waiter, and its likely youll find that you
deeply, utterly lost.
are no more than six degrees away from being
The week I moved back to the United States
related to them. Even mental illness is different
Helen
was the week before Tisha BAv, when we
in Jerusalem; only within her ancient borders
Maryles
mourn for the loss of the Beit Hamikdash, sigcan you come down with Jerusalem Syndrome,
Shankman
naling the beginning of the Jewish diaspora.
where tourists suddenly believe they are biblical
Exile was a perfect metaphor for the way I felt.
prophets, or former kings of Israel.
The culture I had submerged myself in Israel, of
I tick through the list of things I have to do
being part of something larger and more important than my
before she gets home. Spread sheets and blankets and pillowcases on her bare bed. Find a place to park the computer
own needs and desires, had vanished. Everywhere I looked,
and printer that we moved into her room while she was away.
the Western culture I traveled through seemed false, trivial,
Transfer the piles of books and manuscripts back to my desk.
and materialistic.
Dust the furniture. Wash the curtains. Vacuum her carpet. At
But then college started. All those cool courses to choose
Pathmark, I browse through the gluten-free aisle, considerfrom! All the new skills to learn, paths to navigate, books to
ing what to make for her welcome-home dinner. I imagine
read, papers to write, knowledge to be gained! What should
us going for mani-pedis, or having our eyebrows done. And
I do? Who should I be? All those intense late-night conversations that started with questions like, If you commit an altrumovies! My other children are boys. I havent seen a chic flick
istic deed that benefits somebody else, but the deed benefits
all year.
you as well, is it still considered altruistic?
And because I was once a teenage girl who came home from
My despair lifted as I began to understand: What I had cherIsrael, I try to imagine what it will be like for her. Shes been
ished most about my year in Israel living a life of service
independent for ten months now, operating with her own
and meaning, a feeling of being rooted in my religion, a strong
bank card, responsible for doing her own laundry, cooking
sense of my place in Jewish history hadnt disappeared. Now
for herself, keeping her kitchen clean, budgeting her money,
I carried it inside of me. It was my duty to share it. And it
shopping for groceries, negotiating with roommates, being on
would be up to me keep the little flame stoked and burning.
time for classes and events.
Because while it is difficult to leave Jerusalem behind, it is
Friends who have been through this scenario before tell me
also far too easy to slip back into old habits, to lose the intent
that the dynamic changes when a child who has been away
to lead a meaningful life in a summers worth of binge-watchcomes home. What will that mean, other than the inevitable
ing Vikings and The Bachelorette.
fight over who gets the car? What if shes wearing skirts down
So as I look for a new home for the printer and dust off
to her ankles and shirtsleeves that reach past her elbows?
her stuffed animals and throw her curtains into the washing
What do we do then? Will she roll her eyes at our rules? At
machine, Im also hoping this: that she finds happiness in her
our guidance? Will she be happy to return to us here in the
new life, and that what she takes from Israel runs like a river
diaspora, to be our baby again? Or will she count the days
through it.
until she can leave?
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One people, one heart

Conservative, Reform rabbis join others to ask for smart Iran deal
his week marks the one-year anniversary

the first yahrzeit of the kidnapping and
gruesome murders of three young boys in
Israel.
Rabbi Kirshner: I attended the funeral for the boys,
who were buried side by side on a small hill in the town
of Modiin, the geographic center between their three
homes.
In the sweltering heat, 12,000 people gathered to pay
respects to boys whom most never had met. Perhaps a
handful of the 12,000 assembled mourners had known
the boys name 18 days earlier. We were religious and
secular, Jews and Gentiles, politicians and taxi drivers,
men and women, gathered in a rare moment of unity
and grief.
The head of the school two of the boys had attended
eulogized his students. His remarks still inspire me:
Two Jews. Three opinions. One heart.
When the going gets tough, indeed we are one heart.
One people.
Rabbi Cohen: A few weeks later, along with 19 other
rabbis from across the various religious movements
within American life, I headed to Israel as part of a mission sponsored by AIPACs education arm, AIEF. We
landed the first day of the war, and encountered many
Red Alerts. Our third day saw us meeting in a government building in Jerusalem, only to have Iron Dome
intercept a missile directly over us. We were not Reform
or Conservative or Orthodox rabbis then. Instead, we
were friends and colleagues, bound and united by our
Zionism. All that normally divides us disappeared as we
experienced life under fire together.
We were American rabbis... and Jews... getting a small
taste of what our brothers and sisters in Israel live with,
day in and day out.
Both rabbis add:
Sadly these kinds of Jewish unity are all too rare or
so the media would have us believe. They are, however,
more common than you might think. An even more
recent and pressing example drives this point home.
This week Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox rabbis came together in their shared determination to halt
Irans nuclear capabilities. Close to 100 Jewish clergy
leaders from New Jersey signed a letter, based on talking points from AIPAC, encouraging our local representatives to seek five critical ingredients to a deal with Iran.
The letter, which we co-wrote and cosponsored and
remember, one of us a Conservative rabbi and the other
one Reform makes clear that the alternative to a deal
is not war but more negotiations.
5. Dismantlement
Some politicians already have picked
Iran must dismantle its nuclear infraup the letters talking points; Jersey Citys
structure. It must have no path to a nuclear
Mayor Steve Fulop has been making similar suggestions, including in this space last
weapon.
week.
A good deal must require Iran to dismantle its nuclear infrastructure and relinquish
The letter makes clear that a good deal,
its uranium stockpile. It must have neither
as promised by the administration since
a uranium nor a plutonium pathway to
the beginning of these negotiations, must
nuclear weapons.
include the following:
Rabbi DavidThese five key ingredients would not
1. Inspections and verification
Seth Kirshner
only hold Irans feet to the fire, but are key
Inspectors must be permitted unimpeded access to suspect sites. Anytime,
to achieving the diplomatic solution that
anywhere inspections including of
most can support. These five ingredients
all military facilities are necessary in
will prevent war, and do much to keep the
order to verify Iranian compliance. Irans
United States, Israel, and our European
decades-long history of cheating on interallies safe.
national obligations suggests it will attempt
After all, Iran is the leading exporter of
to continue its nuclear weapons program in
non-state radical activity. The terror it supports is contagious. It must be stopped.
secrecy. Iran cannot be permitted any safe
Giving even an inch on any of these stiphavens where it could pursue this ambition.
ulations is like telling a pyromaniac he can
2. Possible military dimensions
Rabbi Dan
only have half a book of matches.
Iran must explain all its earlier weaponCohen
ization efforts, and do so in details. A good
We are taught that the Second Temple
deal must require Iran to come clean on all
was destroyed because of the sin of sinat
its nuclear work, such as developing trigchinam groundless hatred. During that
gers for a nuclear weapon. That already is required by
period, Jews who disagreed about ritual observance and
six United Nations Security Council resolutions.
the interpretation of religious text vilified one another.
The entire scope of Irans nuclear activities must be
It has been said that a house divided cannot stand, and
known, in order to establish a baseline against which to
in the year 70 it did not.
measure future actions. Iran also must be made to comIn 2015/5775 we are often divided as a community. But
ply with earlier commitments.
sometimes we are not divided. And when it comes to
3. Sanctions
securing the safety of the world, when it comes to blocking Iranian nuclear aspirations, and when it comes to
Sanctions relief must begin only after Iran complies
standing strong for a safe and secure America and Israel,
with its commitments, and should specify clear and
we rabbis are able to speak with one voice.
immediate consequences for Iranian violations. The
This week we did just that, and we will continue to do so.
international community must retain significant leverage while Iran demonstrates compliance; it must not
We are a people with many opinions and passions.
provide immediate sanctions relief or unfreeze a signifiHowever, when it comes to stopping the evil of Iran,
cant portion of Tehrans assets. Iran must not be able to
regardless of background and denomination we are
take the money and run.
many people with one heart. Republican or Democrat,
4. Duration
Labor or Likud, we are all united and in lockstep in our
Irans nuclear weapons quest must be blocked for
indefatigable labors to stop a bad deal from happening
decades.
and do our part to encourage our elected officials to be
A good deal must prevent Iran from becoming a
a part of a good deal.
nuclear threshold state. The announced framework
David-Seth Kirshner is the senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of
would lift nuclear restrictions in 10 to 15 years and grant
Closter and president of the New York Board of Rabbis. He is
Iran virtually instant breakout time after 12 or 13 years. A
Conservative.
deal must restrict Irans nuclear capabilities until it demonstrates conclusively that it no longer seeks a nuclear
Dan Cohen is the senior rabbi of Temple Sharey Tefilah-Israel in
weapons capability.
South Orange. He is Reform.
Letters
Federation condemns BDS
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement has,

unfortunately, been gaining momentum over the last
number of months.
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey considers this a serious threat to the only true democracy in the
Middle East, the State of Israel. As an independent member of the Jewish Federation/UJA system located in, and
representing, the local northern New Jersey community,
we are committed to fighting BDS in all its destructive and
poisonous forms. We oppose all attempts, made by any

organization or group, to destabilize and delegitimize
Israel through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement. We regard support of the BDS movement, in
any of its forms, as being unacceptable, and an existential
threat to the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
Zvi S. Marans, M.D., President
Jason M. Shames,
Chief Executive Officer
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, Paramus
Israel needs pluralism
Unfortunately, the Israeli government has learned the

wrong lesson from its Palestinian neighbors when it
comes to religious pluralism (Israeli president Reuven
Rivlin riles Conservative rabbis, June 12). What Abba
Eban once said about the Palestinians is now true of Israels government on the subject of religious pluralism:
it never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Once we get past the tragic individual circumstances
of each of the autistic children who were not allowed to
Letters
become bar or bat mitzvah when they
became pawns in the political game of
Lets placate the charedim so theyll
keep us in power, we should look at
the bigger picture.
Why do Jews enjoy less religious freedom in Israel than in any other western
democracy?
Why do more Israelis get married in
Cyprus than do Cypriots?
Why are the conservatively estimated
300,000 ( but probably closer to a half
million) Russians who are sufficiently
Jewish to serve with the IDF not Jewish enough to be buried in a Jewish
cemetery, even if they die serving their
country? They are Jewish enough to
be drafted, but not Jewish enough to
marry another Jew in Israel.
This is scandalous.
Until religious pluralism is embraced
in Israel, this situation will not be
resolved. If the charedim would look
at the Jewish landscape in America,
they would realize that pluralism actually can help Orthodoxy thrive. But
it might come at the price of a large
number of Israelis reconnecting with
their Jewish traditions and heritage in
vibrant non-Orthodox institutions and
communities.
Richard R. Kahn
Teaneck
Secretary, Masorti Foundation
Hooray for circuses
I have read Dr. Terdimans annual illinformed rants about circus animals for
3 years, and now I feel I must respond
(Animal-free circuses, please, June
12). The animals are a premier asset of a
circus and it costs about $65,000 a year
to maintain a single elephant, for example, so the business interests of the circus make it critical that those assets,
like the human performers, be well
cared for. A vet checks all the animals,
from the dogs to the elephants, every
month. The proofs of cruelty to which
Dr. Terdiman refers are not only films
and pictures shot many decades ago
but they were not shot in the United
States. His accusations insult the individual men and women who train and
care for the animals.
As for the morality of training animals to perform, I would point out that
the Torah refers to working animals many
times, and does not forbid training them
to work, which is what circus animals do.
The domestication of animals was a key

to the very development of human civilization. How many people have taught
their dogs to performs tasks, including
tricks? What about service animals who
are trained extensively for the benefit of
humans? I assume Dr. Terdiman disapproves of this as well. What about housebreaking pets? Is that a violation of his perceived standards? Of course, he must not
have pets himself if we are to give even the
slightest credibility to his motivations. He
must be a vegan too, including not wearing leather.
Finally, I would note that none of
the animals in U.S. circuses ever were
wild. They were born in captivity and
could not survive in the wild. Captivity,
both in zoos and in circuses, is preserving species. An elephant lives about 35
years in the wild and an average of 75
years in captivity. Poaching of wild elephants will render the species extinct
without domestication and breeding.
The Bergen County YJCC provided a
unique and fun family day at the circus,
and I am proud to have been part of it.
Roger Berkley
Woodcliff Lake
The worlds rabbi
Rabbi Boteach calls himself Americas

Rabbi, and he may very well aspire to
that role. Rabbi Sacks, however, in my
opinion is world Jewrys rabbi (Jonathan Sacks should tell Jews to fight for
Israel not to surrender, June 12).
He is tireless in promoting Jewish values, and his love for all things Jewish is
persuasive.
Rabbi Boteach quotes Rabbi Sacks
out of context. Every word I have heard
Rabbi Sacks utter is a fragrant flower
added to Judaisms beautiful bouquet.
Wherever Rabbi Sacks speaks, admiration and love for all things Jewish is
increased.
For some reason, Rabbi Boteach, in
his boundless love for Israel, seems to
thrive on, and draw strength from, gratuitous attacks on people who, to him,
do not rise to his level of devotion to
the Jewish people. It seems that the
only people who equal the rabbis zeal
for the Jewish state have Adelson as
their last name.
I am genetically a happy person.
Rabbi Boteachs column made me sad.
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Mahwah
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Why the Iran nuclear

deal is a hard sell
ith the
it and sanctions snap back
June 30
on.
deadline
Not for the first time, the
for a deal
president reminded his
with Iran over its nuclear
audience that all options
ambitions looming omiare and will remain on the
nously, the Obama admintable which implies
istration is having a hard
that military action is still
time persuading a skeptibeing considered. Other
Ben Cohen
cal public that these negosenior Obama officials
tiations are going to tame
have made similar points
the Tehran regime.
before anxious Jewish
On the two critical issues preventcrowds. At this years American Israel
ing Iran from weaponizing its nuclear
Public Affairs Committee conference,
program and rolling back the expanSusan Rice, Obamas national security
sion of Iranian political and military
adviser, said, As President Obama has
influence throughout the region all
repeated many times, we are keeping
the evidence suggests that the White
all options on the table to prevent Iran
House is engaged in what Lt. Gen.
from developing a nuclear weapon.
Michael Flynn, the former head of the
That rhetoric, which hasnt been
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, has
believable for many months, seems
bluntly called wishful thinking.
almost laughable now. Indeed, most
It is clear that the nuclear deal is
of Rices speech at AIPAC justified the
not a permanent fix but a placeholder,
concessions that the Obama adminisFlynn told the House Foreign Affairs
tration has made on Iran, going on to
Committee this week. Iran, he continwarn that walking away from negoued, has every intention of building
tiations would lead to Irans rebuilda nuclear weapon, and the desire of its
ing its uranium stockpile and we will
Islamist regime to wipe Israel off the
lose the unprecedented sanctions and
map is very real.
transparency we have today. In fact,
Iran has not once contributed to
as the International Atomic Energy
the greater good of the security in the
Agency reported earlier this month,
region, Flynn declared, before conIran increased its uranium stockpile
cluding that regime change is the
by around 20 percent over the last 18
best means of preventing the mullahs
months of negotiations.
from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
The dominant perception in the
Regime change is a concept that
region, shared by many Arab states
couldnt be further from the Obama
and Israel alike, is that Iran is moving
administrations agenda. Not only
toward a nuclear weapon. The Iranidoes it jar with the presidents views
ans know thats how they are seen,
on how foreign policy should be conand frankly, it suits them. It certainly
ducted which explains not just
hasnt curbed Tehrans backing of miliAmericas stance on Iran, but also its
tias in Iraq who would swap out the
flimsy response to Russian aggression
Sunni Islamic State terrorists for a Shia
in Ukraine it directly contradicts the
version of the same, nor has it curbed
goal of strengthening and stabilizing
its support for the barbaric regime of
Iran under its current tyrannical rulers.
Bashar al-Assad in Syria, along with his
As Michael Doran of the Washington,
Hezbollah allies.
D.C.-based Hudson Institute think tank
The prospect that Iran will receive a
explained it in a recent essay for Mosaic
signing bonus of $50 billion should
magazine, in President Barack Obamas
it agree to the nuclear deal remains a
thinking, dtente will restrain Iranian
live one. While the Obama administrabehavior more effectively than any fortion apparently believes that the Iramal agreement.
nians will spend the money to revive
Now, you wouldnt necessarily reach
their flagging economy, that shouldnt
that conclusion by listening to certain
be taken to mean better roads, more
of Obamas remarks. When he spoke at
schools, more career training, or
Washingtons Adas Israel synagogue in
any of the other measures that might
May, Obama was clear: Im interested
revive Iranian society. Strategically, it
in a deal that blocks every single one of
makes far more sense for the regime
Irans pathways to a nuclear weapon
to spend the money on shoring up
every single path. A deal that imposes
Assad, because without him Iran will
unprecedented inspections on all elebecome a much weaker power regionments of Irans nuclear program, so
ally. Similar logic applies to Hezbollah,
that they cant cheat; and if they try to
which has been fighting Islamic State
cheat, we will immediately know about
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A very
busy
92 years W
Al Burstein of Tenafly talks about his life,

from Jersey City childhood through WWII horrors
and adventures in legislation to now
JOANNE PALMER
hen you talk to Albert Burstein
World War II vet, Columbia grad,
lawyer, political reformer, state legislator, education advocate, grand oldschool liberal, native and lifelong Jerseyan you have
to reorient yourself.
On the one hand, you feel as if hes a contemporary.
None of the subtly patronizing hes still so sharp
assessments can be applied to him. Hes scary-smart,
just as he clearly always has been. Ask him a question about this weeks politics, and hell analyze it and
answer it, elegantly, cogently, convincingly.
On the other hand, Mr. Burstein is 92 years old. That
means that he has almost a centurys worth of stored
knowledge. Ask him a question about politics in the
1980s, or 60s, or 40s, and hell analyze it and answer
it, elegantly, cogently, convincingly.
Or ask him to tell you his story.
Last month, the New Jersey Law Journal honored
Mr. Burstein, who lives in Tenafly and still practices

law, now with Archer & Greiner in Hackensack, with
its lifetime achievement award. Thats certainly not
the first honor hes received among many others, he
earned a bronze star from the U.S. government for his
World War II service overseas, and the French government named him a chevalier of the Legion of Honor
for fighting Nazis on its soil.
We can start Mr. Mr. Bursteins story in February of 1912. That when his father, Julius, came from
Ciechanw, Poland, when he was 17 years old and had
just completed the equivalent of a high school education. He had made his way first to Warsaw, and then
to Hamburg, peddling buttons, but he was not making a living, his son said. So, all alone, leaving behind
parents and siblings who later were murdered during
World War II, he crossed the Atlantic on a ship appropriately named Abraham Lincoln, Albert Burstein
said.
When he landed in New York, My father had a dollar in his pocket, and very limited English. Its amazing,
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From top: Mr. Burstein

is playing basketball at
Columbia; in uniform,
at home in Jersey City,
about to go to war; was
awarded this French
Legion of Honor for
fighting the Nazis in
France, and with a
legislative aide, Stan
Grossman, at the New
Jersey State Assembly.
Mr. Burstein ran for Congress in 1978.
the courage they had. (The they here,

of course, is both his father and the other
immigrants who came across the ocean to
I was active in
athletics. I
played football,
but only in my
last year,
because my
mother wouldnt
let me before
that. She had a
gut reaction
to it.
this promising but entirely unknown new
world, secure in the knowledge only that
there was no turning back.)
When my father came here, he had just
one address, of someone who had come

from Ciechanw, was living in Jersey City,
and had a business there, Mr. Burstein
said. My father made contact with him
you had to have someone who you could
tell immigration about, so you wouldnt be
a public charge.
My father began working for this man,
and slowly but surely he began building up
his knowledge of the language and the customs. He worked hard, he saved money,
and eventually he started his own business, in the soft goods line linens and
curtains and drapery, Mr. Burstein said.
Mr. Bursteins mother, Hannah Siegel
Burstein, came from uromin, a Polish
town close to Ciechanw, but the two did
not meet until both were in the United
States. Helen Siegel had a hard childhood.
Her mother died when she was an infant,
and the aunt who took her in was not
pleasant, Mr. Burstein said. Her father
had immigrated early and brought her
older siblings first. By 1917 or so, though,
she had arrived in Manhattans Lower
East Side, where she lived in a walk-up on
Rivington Street. Soon, people who knew
both of them brought Hannah and Julius
together; they married on January 1, 1922,
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and she moved across the Hudson to her
husbands New Jersey home.
They had a walk-up, a block from the
store, Mr. Burstein said. He was born in
Jersey City in November 1922 my parents were busy, he said and he grew up
there.
Jersey City had a growing Jewish community at that time, he continued. The
percentage that sticks in my mind is about
8 or 9 percent of the population. He and
his brother, David, lived first at 270 Bayview Avenue, and then, when his parents
business proved successful, on Broadman
Parkway. Thats where I spent the rest of
my childhood, he said.
Mr. Burstein went through cheder
thats a traditional Hebrew school for elementary-school-age children at the Bergen Avenue synagogue. It was a traditional
synagogue I dont remember its Hebrew
name and we were members there. We
were there through my bar mitzvah, and
then for about a year after that, and then
I became an apostate. That was in about
1933.
It is a sort of topsy-turvy story, with politics not coming out exactly the way youd
expect them to.
I hadnt quite decided that I was finished
With the whole family.
with religion at that point, but our rabbi

became a controversial figure, Mr. Burstein
said. His sermons focused a lot on international affairs if you were going to label him
you wouldnt call him a communist, but he
was a left-thinking individual. He aroused a
lot of animosity in the congregation.
So we left there and joined Temple
Beth El, which was Reform, and I spent the
rest of my time in Jersey City as a member

of that congregation.
(The rabbi, research shows, was Benjamin Plotkin, the Jewish Theological
Seminary-trained rabbi who was politically active; an opponent of Frank Hague,
the longtime mob-connected Jersey City
mayor; held the bimah at Emanu-El in
Jersey City for 51 years; and was honored
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by the state legislature in 1982, the year

after he died, for being a fighter against
fascism and the Nazi movement and as
the founder of the American Jewish Alliance, which was dedicated to peace
and justice. So although the Bursteins
left the synagogue, some of Rabbi Plotkins ethos affected Mr. Bursteins career
nonetheless.)
Why did Mr. Burstein leave the more
traditional Jewish world remember that
back then, the lines between the Orthodox and Conservative movements were far
more porous than they are now, with the
mixed-gender seating in Conservative shuls
often the only difference between the movements practice for the Reform one?
The old-world scholarship and worldview that the more traditional parts of the
Jewish world reflected did not fit comfortably with my parents, even though they
were brought up in Europe, Mr. Burstein
said. They were beginning to break away.
As a result, they felt more comfortable
with the Reform congregation.
This was when classic Reform was
starting to lose its appeal; when they realized that people were not entirely at home
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rabbi there was not a dynamic sort of
individual, but he suited the times.
Mr. Burstein went to public school.
There werent that many Jewish kids in
high school Henry Snyder High School
but our out-of-school presence was
centered on the JCC in Jersey City, he
said. It was a thriving place.
High school was uneventful for me,
he continued. I was active in athletics. I
played football, but only in my last year,
because my mother wouldnt let me
before that. She had a gut reaction to it.
But I kept pestering her, and I did play,
and we won the county championship. I
also played basketball for four years, and
I was on the tennis team for two years.
My only distinguishing characteristic, aside from the fact that I was one of
the few who played in a series of athletics, was that my grades werent bad, he
There werent
that many
Jewish kids in
high school
Henry Snyder
High School
but our out-ofschool presence
was centered on
the JCC in
Jersey City.
said. Like many of his Jewish peers, he
was college bound (My parents, like in 99
percent of the Jewish homes, insisted on
that as a given), and he set his mind on
Columbia. Not only was it a good school,
they also had a football team that won
the Rose Bowl in 1932, and they also had
a Jewish kid from Brooklyn, Sid Luckman,
the quarterback, who went on to the Chicago Bears. Sid Luckman was Jewish, so
he became this young mans idol.
After Mr. Bursteins guidance counselor paid him a backhanded compliment that Mr. Burstein still cherishes He told me that for an athlete,
youre not a bad student the young
man applied to Columbia. He applied
nowhere else. I was accepted, he said
simply.
Columbia had a quota system then.
I was kind of nave; I didnt have a real
understanding of it, Mr. Burstein said.
But his roommate also was Jewish that
was not a coincidence and the son of
a father who also had been at Columbia,
25 years earlier, when the quota already
had been in effect. The Jewish quota
then was about 10 percent of entering
freshmen, Mr. Burstein said. There
was not nearly the percent of Jews there

that there is now.
Columbia was just across the river and
a little bit north of Jersey City, but I was
living on campus, and that opened up a
new world, Mr. Burstein said.
His football career lasted only one
year.
I played freshman football they had
a separate football team for freshman
then. I didnt make the first team. I was a
second-stringer. I went out for varsity in
the spring, and I was making progress.
I probably would have made the squad,
although not as a starter but we had
a major scrimmage, and just toward the
end I got knocked out. I had a mild concussion. That ended my football career.
What did his mother, who had tried
to keep him from playing football, say
about that? My mother didnt know
about it, Mr. Burstein said. I was very
devious. And he had no long-term
effects. Still, he said, he remembered
nothing from just before he was hit until
about seven hours later.
He loved Columbia. The academics were of a high order; when I took
the train to Baker Field, I would have
to make sure to have that weeks assignment with me. You had to work on the
train. (Columbias football team played
in a field at Manhattans northern tip, a
moderately long subway ride away.)
Mr. Burstein played basketball
throughout college, he concentrated
on his studies, he had an active social
life, and he enjoyed those years. Pretty
much everyone at Columbia was smart,
and so you got to hang around with people who have similar objectives, and you
find yourself more and more comfortable using your mind, he said.
Still, something enormous was hanging over all of them, a huge dark cloud
that covered everything, he said.
World War II was raging in Europe. No
one knew if or when the United States
would enter the war, and American Jews
did not yet know about what was happening to the Jews of Europe, but young men
of draftable age knew that their futures
were not necessarily theirs to map.
During my first year in college, 194041, before Pearl Harbor, the war was
more distant, Mr. Burstein said. Obviously, the kind of stories coming out of
Europe, with the Nazi advances, posed a
kind of personal danger to us, a danger
that you had to think about, if you were
not a dummy.
What happened is that you go about
your normal business, whatever it was
you were doing.
And then Pearl Harbor happened. It
was December 7, 1941. The war was getting closer.
The armed forces sponsored programs at colleges; Mr. Burstein, whose
weak eyesight, he feared, would have
ruled out his acceptance by any other
branch, joined the Army Reserves. At
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first, he said, the U.S. government tried to
keep many college students in school instead
of having them all drafted at once, with no
more to pull into the war later, so he was
able to finish his junior year. Then I was
called up on May 8, 1943, and went through
basic training in Camp Wheeler in Georgia.
They gave us tests there, and that made me
eligible to go into a special program called
ASTP the Army Specialized Training Program. That was for the purpose of going into
the armys intelligence corps.
I was assigned to study German the
language and its history and background. I
didnt speak it before, but I was fairly adept
at languages. I was transferred to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The course was
supposed to last for eight or nine months,
and then I was going to be transferred to the
central intelligence headquarters at Camp
Lee in Virginia.
But something else happened.
The invasion of Europe.
In June of 1944 they shut down all the
programs, so they gave me a certificate,
which was meaningless, and they sent me
overnight from a nice warm bed in Lincoln
to an infantry outfit in advanced infantry
training in Louisiana and Mississippi.
At that point, it was the worst experience
I had ever had. I went from a comfortable

middle-class life, having a bed to myself, to
living like an animal.
I became an infantryman. Hard times.
Hard times.
The training lasted for about a month,
and then the unit was sent to Boston, and
the next day was put on a transport ship.
We found ourselves in Cherbourg, France,
seven days later, Mr. Burstein said.
By that time, the invasion had taken
place. D-Day was June 6, 1944. By this
time, it was late August. There was still fighting going on. It was very difficult for the
American troops, even after they had landed
successfully, to break through the lines and
really push the Germans back, except by
slogging your way through.
Patton who had gotten a great deal
of equipment, because of his personality
had taken Paris. We were on the right flank
of Pattons army. I was part of the Seventh
Army. We didnt have the same kind of support. By that time, we were not too far from
Lyons. We bivouacked in a little town called
Luneville; everyone called it Looneyville.
How could you not?
I was in combat for close to two months.
We went into the fall, and it was one of the
worst times, weather-wise, that the French
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Mr. Burstein also plays the piano.
had ever experienced. And because

there were not reservists behind us
they had exhausted all the reserve
troops for the invasion when we
landed, there wasnt anybody behind
us to come in and relieve us. So they
stayed in place, in combat, in the rain,
in the cold, well past the number of days
and weeks when they should have been
allowed some respite.
There were many times when I
thought I was a goner, Mr. Burstein said.
Enemy fire was not the only danger he
and his unit faced.
I was living outside, without any
shelter, for a straight period of maybe a
month, maybe even more, when I developed trench feet, Mr. Burstein said.
When they finally relieved us from
frontline duty, and I took my boots off
the boots had been on his feet all that
time, because there was no way to bathe,
there were no dry clothes or socks, or
shoes, no reason to take them off, and
many reasons to keep them on, for the
meager protection they afforded my
legs exploded.
That probably saved my life, he continued. He was sent to a hospital, where
he remained for about two months,
while the men in his unit who were
healthy enough to go back into battle
were sent to the Battle of the Bulge,
where most of them died.
I had no feeling in my feet at all, he
said. The only treatment they could
give at the hospital was to stick a pin in
your foot to see if there was a reaction.
If there was no reaction for too long, or if
the leg started turning black, it would be
amputated. So when they stuck in the
pin, I wanted it to hurt, he said.
Eventually, when some feeling came
back to his legs, Mr. Burstein was transferred to Dijon, and then to Marseilles,
where he finished out the war in a transportation unit.
We acted as a supply depot, not only
providing equipment to our own troops
but also to a major extent negotiating
with the Russians. By that time they

were beginning to break through Poland
to Germany. But I was out of combat,
using my non-Army-related French. He
stayed in Marseilles until January 1945.
The most dramatic thing that I experienced, other than things like digging foxholes and taking shelter with metal whizzing past your head, was when I was in
Marseilles, the European war was over,
and some of the concentration camps
began to empty out, Mr. Burstein said.
They sent a group of about 15 people
who had just been released to Marseilles.
I went with the chaplain from our base, a
rabbi. We came into this darkened room,
and you see these people on bunk beds.
They looked like you cant believe it
when you see it and smell it close up. It
was something that never leaves your
mind.
They were begging for anything we
could get for them, food, clothing. We
couldnt get them anything from American provisions, but we managed to act
as petty thieves, and bring them things.
It was like looking at living corpses.
They were men and women, but it was
hard to tell the difference.
By that time, there had been enough
written and coming out through a variety of sources about the camps to indicate what had been going on, but it was
different when I saw it. I have gone to the
Holocaust Museum in Washington, and
several other museums, but frankly my
reaction has not been strong there. They
dont have nearly as much of a searing
impact as seeing the real thing.
It was a terrible time.
Finally, Mr. Burstein went back home.
We went on one of the liberty ships,
built for speed, not comfort. We hit a
North Atlantic storm, and I thought that
would be my end, after all that combat.
It was pitching and yawing, and
we were in bunk beds, crammed with
returning soldiers, and a lot of them
were throwing up. So the smells
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finally got into New York harbor it was 3 or 5 in the
morning. We couldnt get in close because there were
dredging problems, so we had to wait for a couple of
hours, until they could get some tenders. And then,
where do I land but Jersey City?
So when he got home from war, he really was home.
Of course, it wasnt quite that easy. He had to go to
Fort Dix for his discharge, and then I took the train
from Fort Dix to Journal Square in Jersey City. The
thing that absolutely struck me when I got out of the
train and onto the Hudson County bus line to go to my
parents home were peoples accents.
There was such a nasal twang to it! It was unmistakably Jersey City.
Next, there was the readjustment to civilian life.
I was in service about 33 months, Mr. Burstein
said. You cant avoid coming back a different person
than you were when you left.
Columbia had a special program for returning veterans and he could have begun it right away, but he
chose not to. I wanted to get back to civilization at
my own pace, he said. First, I didnt do much of anything. I did a little helping out in my fathers business.
he said; for 30 years, he was at Wolf Baumann and Burstein

there. We moved into an apartment house in Jersey City,
about a block and a half from the JCC. By the time we had
our first child, Jeffrey, in 1953, I was plugging away, trying
to get a living wage, and working in my fathers store to buttress our income. And then, slowly but surely, it began to
build. In 1956 we had our second child, Diane, and in 1961
our third, Laura.
When they lived in Jersey City, it was notoriously corrupt.
I became to some extent part of public life there, but with
a couple of other people I formed an independent political
organization, Mr. Burstein said. We were not of a mind to
go into the Democratic Party at that time, because of the
corruption. And we certainly were not ideologically sympathetic with the Republican Party.
Jersey City had a very archaic system of governance, he
said, and it served the people in charge but no one else. His
group advocated the creation of a charter commission that
would change the system. I wrote the report, and I took it
to the offices of the editorial board of the local newspaper,
the Jersey Journal. I had a slight relationship with the editor, Gene Farrell, but I didnt really know him, and I didnt
know what was going to happen. I really was rather nave
about the way in which these things ever see the light of
day. So I left it with him, and within two or three days I get
a call from him.
He asked me to come over, and of course I sprinted over.
And he said do you mind if we might have to change this
and it was something like changing a colon to a comma. It
was a very light edit. He published it and that became the
centerpiece for the next stage of my public career.
That career led him to chair the Community Charter
Council, and we succeeded in having the commission created, and I became counsel. It went to the ballot, and we
won the motion to change the government.
We won by a substantial margin.
He fought a number of political battles in Jersey City,
winning some more but eventually losing to the machine
that stayed in place for many more years in fact, its hold
I was in service about

33 months. You cant
avoid coming back
a different person
than you were when
you left.
I had rather a lazy mans life for the next few months.
He had been a summer camp counselor before the
war, and he went back to that camp, Echo Lark, in the
Poconos near Poyntelle, Pennsylvania, the summer
after he came home. It was weird, he said. It was
like wanting to go back to my childhood. By September, he was more than ready to go back to Columbia,
and once again live in a dorm. He was one of many
veterans there. It was like a parade of returnees, he
said. And Columbia never had luxurious rooms, but
compared to the foxholes
During this time, Mr. Burstein decided that he
wanted to be a lawyer, so he stayed at Columbia, graduating, through an accelerated program, in June 1949.
New Jersey required a nine-month clerkship before
you could be sworn in as a lawyer, he said. It was an
archaic system. After the clerkship, you took the bar.
He did that in June 1950, more than half a century
ago.
Two years earlier, Mr. Burstein had met Ruth Appelblatt on the Columbia campus. Ms. Appelblatt, who
came from the Bronx and had graduated from Brooklyn College, was working on a masters in education
there. Although when they first met she had been dating one of his classmates (One day, in my audacious
period, I went up to him and asked for her phone
number. He muttered some obscenity, gave it to me,
and I never talked to him again) the two quickly fell
for each other.
They married in December 1950. She taught in Manhattan, and they lived in a sublet on Riverside Drive
that was luxury beyond compare, he said.
Still, three years later, the couple moved to New Jersey, and they have lived here ever since. We decided
that Jersey City would be where I would practice law,
weakened only in the last half decade.

Their children went to public school, and when it came
time for their oldest, Jeffrey, to enter high school, Ruth
Burstein objected. It was in an accelerating state of decay,
Mr. Burstein said. So although the move meant that he
would have to commute to work, we moved to Tenafly.
It was 1965. We have lived in the same house happily ever
after, he said, smiling.
For a time, he stayed away from politics. When I was part
of the losing effort in Jersey City, I swore that I was finished
with politics, he said. Instead, his wife decided to join the
local Democratic club, in what then was a strongly Republican town. She engaged with the issue of developing a large
piece of virgin land she was strongly in favor of a statewide
preservation effort and ended up by drawing him in.
From 1971 through 1981, Mr. Burstein was in the state legislature, a Democrat representing the 37th district, the eastern part of Bergen County. One of the things I liked about it
was that I could get involved in a whole variety of important
statewide issues, he said. I started with the belief that elections, as a bedrock of our democratic system, should be paid
for by the state, with restrictions on contributions. I wrote
my own legislation about it, and I didnt how to write legislation. By doing it myself, I learned how many angles you have
to approach something from. That, of course, is a useful life
skill, applicable to almost anything.
He also devoted much time and passion to education; he
chaired the education committee, and worked to change the
way public education is funded in the state, focusing on the
disproportionate amount of resources flowing to richer districts. In 1975, the legislature passed an education act that he
spearheaded, which mandated fairer funding.
He also was responsible for changing trust and estate law
in New Jersey to simplify it and make it more uniform, he
said.
From my standpoint, these positions were the products
of the Jewish values that we were brought up on, Mr. Burstein said.
After 10 years, Mr. Burstein retired from the legislature.
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I decided that 10 years was enough,
he said. I didnt want to hang around
and do the same things over and over.
Instead, I continued my interest in
governmental activity; I was on several
commissions that were appointed by
governors, first about how the education law change was going, and then on
the matter of governmental ethics. I also
became the first chairman on an entity
that had existed years ago, the election
law enforcement committee.
Oh, and he also was on the editorial
board of the New Jersey Law Journal for
15 or so years, Mr. Burstein added.
Mr. Burstein has been at the Hackensack law firm since 1986, when he was
64. Its been a fruitful part of my professional life, because I began getting matters from judges and courts not only in
Bergen County but around the state, he
said. I had made contacts from service
on various commissions, so I became a
special master, a mediator, doing things
of that kind.
He still works with trusts and estates,
and some of it becomes family law. You
do hear a lot about family relationships
that is often painful, he said. Thats
where most of the arguments happen.
Not with outsiders, but within relationships, so I am a kind of arbiter for a lot
of that stuff.
The work he does now is intellectually taxing, as it always had been. I
get a great deal of satisfaction from it,
he said. It is a variety of things, and it
keeps the brain working. When I go to
see my primary care doctor, he says to
keep working.
He and Ruth are the happy grandparents of three grandchildren, to whom
they are close.
What are the most striking societal
changes that Mr. Burstein has seen over
his sweepingly long career? I would
have to say, even though its a broadbrush comment, that social mores have
broken down in a way that I think has
been harmful to us, he answered immediately. As a society, the disciplines of
behavior have become almost nonexistent. I dont want to sound too dramatic,
I started with
the belief that
elections, as a
bedrock of our
democratic
system, should
be paid for by
the state, with
restrictions on
contributions.
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wearing a newly awarded medal
from the government of France.
but I do think that the idea that there was
a disciplinary system under which you
grew up and that you would carry forward into your adulthood has been badly
diminished. I dont know what to attribute that change to, but I know it exists.
And I say that as a liberal, he added.
You can be a liberal, and at the same
time be sensible.
There have been positive changes too,
he said. The revolution in communication is the single most beneficient and
probably the most provocative of the
changes that I have seen over my adult
life.
And then there is a very local positive change that this Jersey boy points
to with delight. Jersey City. It is absolutely astonishing to me that such new
life could sprout up there, he said. We
all marvel at what has happened there. It
is very satisfying.
They rave about it in a way that was
unimaginable when I was growing up,
Mr. Burstein said with satisfaction.
Loretta Weinberg of Teaneck, the
Democrat who is the majority leader in
the state Senate and who represents
the new iteration of Mr. Bursteins old
district, the 37th worked for Mr. Burstein in his first campaign, and has both
liked and admired him ever since.
Al Burstein was one of the most
respected members of the New Jersey
State Assembly, for his manner, for the
way he handled things, for his intellect,
for the issues he worked on, she said.
He always understood the ins and outs
of the legislation he was proposing or
trying to garner votes for.
To this day, when I run into them
Al and Ruth in a restaurant or a movie
line, to my eyes he has not changed
one bit, in his mind, how he feels about
issues, or his looks.
He is as articulate as when he would
stand on the floor of the Senate. He is a
brilliant man. He has a set of progressive
values, which he has kept, no matter
what, and he has an undergirding sense
of decency.
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caused a stir this week by publicly
accusing President Barack Obama of
abandoning the two core principles that
undergird the U.S.-Israel relationship: no
public disagreements and no surprises.
But should there really be no public
disagreements no daylight, in diplomatic parlance between the United
States and Israel, and is that kind of
shoulder-to-shoulder closeness possible,
even between allies?
Oren, the American-born diplomat
who served as Israels ambassador in
Washington from 2009 to 2013 and is
now a Knesset member in Israels center-right Kulanu party, outlined his argument in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street
Journal. The piece appeared the same
week as the launch of Orens new book,
Ally: My Journey Across the AmericanIsraeli Divide.
Immediately after his first inauguration, Mr. Obama put daylight between
Israel and America, Oren wrote in the
op ed.
With the Middle East unraveling and
dependable allies a rarity, the U.S. and
Israel must restore the no daylight and
no surprises principles, the op ed
continued. Israel has no alternative to
America as a source of security aid, diplomatic backing and overwhelming popular support. The U.S. has no substitute
for the state that, though small, remains

democratic, militarily and technologically robust, strategically located and
unreservedly pro-American.
David Makovsky, a member of the U.S.
State Department team that attempted
to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace last
year, said that open disagreements and
mutual surprises have characterized the
relationship for decades.
He mentioned events starting from
President Dwight Eisenhowers threats
to isolate Israel during the Suez war in
1956 through President George W. Bushs
endorsement in 2002 of Palestinian
statehood, which caught Israelis by surprise. Makovsky also noted Israeli decisions that caught Americans off guard,
such as the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear
reactor in 1981 and Israels entry into Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon War.
Aspirationally, there should be no
surprises, said Makovsky, who is now
a fellow at the Washington Institute for
Near East policy, a think tank regarded
to have close ties to the U.S. and Israeli
governments. In all candor, this is not
always the case on either side.
While its true that disagreements
long have characterized U.S.-Israel ties,
Obama was the first president to make
a policy of daylight, said Jonathan
Schanzer, a vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, whose
expertise includes the Israeli-Palestinian
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ood deeds can be contagious.

Just ask Laura Marks, a British Jew who is
widely credited with creating one of her communitys most widely celebrated new traditions: an annual Mitzvah Day, now in its 11th consecutive
year, in which thousands of British Jews perform charity
work in retirement homes, homeless shelters, hospitals,
and even neglected cemeteries.
Inspired by the custom of some American Jewish communities, including in Los Angeles and Detroit, Marks
thought the activity not only promised to brighten peoples lives but would give American-style confidence to
a community where many feel being Jewish is slightly
embarrassing, as she put it.
The idea took off and its scope has reached far
beyond the Jewish community. In 2010, inspired by
Mitzvah Day, Britains Hindu community launched a
date of good deeds it called Sewa Day. And in March,
the Muslim community held its first Sadaqa Day.
I took the inspiration and the model completely from
what Laura is doing, and I have no hesitation in saying
that, said Julie Siddiqi, director of the Islamic Society of
Britain and the founder of Sadaqa Day.
Marks facilitated the creation of Sadaqa Day, and the
cooperation between the two women gave birth to a new
interfaith initiative called Nisa-Nashim, which means
women in Arabic and Hebrew. The action kicked off
June 9 with an event at the Jewish Museum in the London Borough of Camden attended by 100 women.
In working together to adapt Mitzvah Day to the Muslim community, Siddiqi, a British-born convert to Islam,
and Marks realized charity and social action were an
effective basis for strengthening womens involvement
in communal life in both communities, Marks said.
For Muslim men and women, Sadaqa Days a good
way to show what their faith is about, as opposed to
what people think and read about Islam, Siddiqi said.
For Muslim women in particular, she added, its a way
to do something self-led in a way that they are not given,
or feel theyre not given, the opportunity to do normally
in their male-led faith communities.
Muslims and Jews unite around Mitzvah Day in Detroit,
where members of both communities hold joint charitable activities each year. But Muslim-Jewish relations are
far more strained in Britain, where last year Jews were
the target of at least 1,168 anti-Semitic attacks. Many of
them are believed to have been perpetrated by Muslims in
response to Israels actions in Gaza last summer.

Across Europe, interfaith dialogue took a hit in recent
years as Jewish communities reported attacks at record
levels. In France, the French Council of the Muslim Faith
pulled out of the annual dinner in February of its Jewish
counterpart, CRIF, an umbrella of French Jewish communities and groups, after CRIFs president said that
most anti-Semitic attacks were the handiwork of Muslims. And in the Netherlands, the Jewish-Moroccan Network was disbanded amid fights over Israel.
Its true that when something happens in Gaza, people all over social media talk about it and it becomes
very toxic, Siddiqi said. But while politics sometimes
can poison relationships, Mitzvah Day and social action
are apolitical, helping to form friendships that will hopefully stop the dynamic in the next round of violence,
she added.
At the interfaith event, participants divided into four
tracks sports, culture, business, and social action
to brainstorm and draw up plans for interfaith work in
those fields.
Women especially have the potential to change the
dynamic, according to Rabbi David Rosen, the Englandborn, Israel-based director of interreligious affairs at the
American Jewish Committee.
Despite the setbacks, interfaith dialogue is expanding
and is actually more robust now than it has ever been,
Rosen said. He cited Vatican initiatives and a host of joint
Jewish-Muslim actions to curb the radicalism that led to
the murder of 12 people in three attacks on Jewish targets in France and Belgium by Islamists since 2012.
In this context, Rosen added, the development of
womens initiatives has great potential because it
expands interfaith beyond the male-dominated establishment of Muslim and Jewish communities, reaching
new audiences an elusive goal for interfaith activists
seeking to extend beyond their own progressive circles
to compete for the rank-and-files hearts and minds.
The contribution of women, who, I think we can all
agree tend to be more sympathetic, can be profound,
Rosen said.
Back in London, Marks and Siddiqis new initiative
already is bringing down barriers for Nicola Gee, a London Jewish mother of four. Despite having many Muslim
friends, she never has visited a mosque in Britain.
Instead of writing 13 emails to arrange a tour or whatever, I called one of the women I met last week at the
launch, she said. Im going to the mosque Friday.

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This is the first time that this has

been a systematic approach to Israel,
Schanzer said, noting the report
that Oren cited. It said that in July
2009, Obama told Jewish leaders he
believed that the no-daylight policy
was contrary to American and Israeli
interests and to advancing the peace
process.
When tensions came up in the
past, the approach was to try to
downplay it, said Schanzer, who
monitored terrorist financing at
the U.S. Treasury during George W.
Bushs administration. Over the
last six years, when there has been
a disagreement, this administration
has doubled down on the conflict
that existed and used those disagreements for political gain.
Ilan Goldenberg, the chief of staff for
the U.S. Middle East peace team until
last year, said Obama and Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have
made their grievances public.
He noted Netanyahus strategy of
public lobbying against the emerging
nuclear deal between Iran and the
major powers. Obama favors the deal,
and his administration officials have

urged Netanyahu to make his disagreements known in a private setting.
Obama has been willing to express
disagreement more than previous
presidents, said Goldenberg, the
director of the Middle East program at
the Center for a New American Security. But the big violator of no daylight
now is Netanyahu, much more than
Obama, even as Obama tries to reach
out.
Goldenberg also took issue with
some of Orens examples. Oren wrote
that Obama abrogated the no surprises principle in his first meeting
with Mr. Netanyahu, in May 2009,
by abruptly demanding a settlement
freeze and Israeli acceptance of the
two-state solution.
Those positions should not have
taken Netanyahu by surprise, Goldenberg said: Two states had been a principle since the Clinton presidency, and
freezes on settlement growth were the
policies of U.S. administrations since
almost immediately after the 1967 SixDay War, when Israel captured disputed territories.
Saying two states and 1967 lines
with land swaps was unprecedented
was dubious given 242 and the Clinton

parameters, Goldenberg said, referring to the 1967 U.N. Security Council
resolution that called for Israels withdrawal from territories captured during the war.
Heather Hurlburt, a director at the
liberal New America think tank, said
she was taken aback by Orens insistence in the op ed that Netanyahus
offenses, including announcements
of settlement building, were missteps, while Obamas offenses were
deliberate.
Everything the Israeli side did that
was damaging was accidental, but
everything the Obama side did was
a personal decision of Obama? she
asked incredulously.
A recent ambassador writing such
an op ed suggests deeper problems in
the U.S.-relationship, Hurlburt said.
If thats how [Oren] perceived it
when he was an ambassador, its an
enormous problem, Hurlburt said.
This is recriminating over who hurt
the other person more in the relationship. Its embarrassing. When you get
to that point in a relationship, youre
usually done.

Spanish councilman
who tweeted controversial
Holocaust joke resigns
A Spanish councilman from Madrid resigned on
Monday after public outrage over a tweet that
made light of the Holocaust.
Guillermo Zapata tweeted in 2011, How do you
fit five million Jews in a SEAT 600 [a Spanish automobile]? In the ashtray.
The tweet garnered attention after Zapata
became responsible for the Spanish capitals cultural and sports affairs last week following the victory of his left-wing Ahora Madrid party in Mays
Madrid municipal elections. In addition, it was
discovered that Zapata has defended a journalist from the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais who
denied the Holocaust on Twitter. That journalist
was later fired.
The revelation of Zapatas tweets caused outrage
in the Spanish Jewish community. Spains umbrella
group of Jewish communities, the FCJE, called the
Holocaust joke anti-Semitic and repugnant.
Zapata had apologized for the Holocaust joke
on Twitter, but added that he considered the joke
an expression of black humor that helps reach
catharsis.

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teacher, Yitchok Reb Yitz Cohen of Teaneck, center, rear, and assistant teachers
Nechama Peled-Wolf and Lori Seigerman, rear, left and right, visited Teaneck
to see highlights of its large, active Jewish community. Among the stops was
a visit to the Jewish Center of Teaneck,
pictured, to see Judaic art works, the
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and dean of students at Lander College
of Arts and Sciences, received the first
Touro College Gold Medal of Achievement at the 41st commencement exercises of Touros undergraduate schools
last month at Lincoln Center. From left,

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new slate of officers. Among them are
assistant financial officer Michael Robinson, third vice president Steve Friedman,
treasurer Larry Silver, secretary Michael
Goldberg, , second vice president Lynn
Chaiken, president Mark Chelemer, first
vice president Amy Abrams, and assistant
secretary Lisa Eig. Financial secretary Jim
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Noninvasive, early detection
of stomach cancer
Israels electronic nose pioneer shows how nanotechnology can improve
and simplify diagnosis of an often deadly condition.
potentially quick, simple, inexpensive, and

non-invasive method for identifying people at risk of stomach (gastric) cancer and
finding tumors at an earlier stage has been
announced by Professor Hossam Haick at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Haick, a professor of chemical engineering at the
Technions Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute,
developed the nanotech breath-analysis system NaNose to detect a range of illnesses. The latest study
proved its effectiveness in predicting and diagnosing
gastric cancer.
A potentially quick,
simple, inexpensive,
and non-invasive
method for identifying
people at risk of
stomach (gastric)
cancer.
Writing in the prestigious journal Gut, Haick and his
lab team describe how they took 968 breath samples
from 484 patients, including 99 known to have gastric
cancer.
They analyzed each sample twice once using a standard gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method
(GCMS) and again with Haicks nanoarray technology
combined with a pattern-recognition algorithm for
Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium known to increase the
risk for stomach cancer.
The tests showed that patients with cancer as well as
those at high risk had distinctive breath prints.
The nanoarray analysis allowed the researchers to distinguish between patients with gastric cancer, people with
precancerous stomach lesions, and healthy individuals,
based on the concentrations of eight specific substances
(out of 130) in the oral cavity. The method had 73 percent
sensitivity, 98 percent specificity and 92 percent accuracy.
The diagnosis is accurate regardless of other factors
such as age, sex, smoking habits, alcohol consumption
and the use of anti-oxidant drugs.
Catching cancer early

This innovative stomach cancer-detection technology
has significant advantages over the existing detection
methods that are more invasive and less capable of
finding tumors in the earliest stages, according to Gut.
Gastric cancer, one of the most deadly forms of
cancer, is ordinarily diagnosed via endoscopy, which
Professor Hossam Haick of the Technion
requires inserting a tube into the esophagus. Patients

must fast and receive an intravenous sedative before
the procedure.
Though the disease develops in a series of welldefined steps, there is currently no effective, reliable and non-invasive screening test for catching
these changes early on, when treatment can be most
effective.
Haicks Na-Nose can detect premalignant lesions
when healthy cells have just started becoming
cancerous.
The study, published in Gut as part of the doctoral
thesis of Haicks student Haitham Amal, was conducted in conjunction with a Latvian research group
headed by Prof. Marcis Leja, based on the largest population sample ever in a trial of this type.
In order to assess the accuracy and effectiveness of
the breath-analysis nanotechnology for stomach cancer diagnosis, a wide-scale clinical trial is currently
under way in Europe involving thousands of participants who have cancerous or pre-cancerous tumors.
Nanoarray analysis could provide the missing noninvasive screening tool for [gastric cancer] and related
precancerous lesions as well as for surveillance of the
latter, the study report concludes.
Haick also is working on related advances such as
the Sniff-Phone mobile diagnostic tool and a portable
pneumonia diagnostic kit.
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This innovative stomach

cancer-detection
technology has
significant advantages
over the existing
detection methods that
are more invasive and
less capable of
finding tumors in the
earliest stages
company Exalenz Bioscience, which introduced its
BreathID Hp diagnostic device to detect H. pylori bacteria through breath samples.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, about
two-thirds of the world population is affected by the H.
pylori bacteria, which cause peptic ulcers and gastric
inflammation in addition to its association with stomach cancer. Until BreathID was introduced to the market in 2013, the most common way to detect this type
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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles
Plant discovery offers new hope for diabetics

Goldilocks flowering shrub indigenous to Israel
improves insulin secretion and glucose absorption
Ingesting an indigenous Israeli aromatic shrub called Chiliadenus iphionoides (more commonly, sharp varthemia
or Goldilocks) could improve insulin secretion and glucose absorption in people with diabetes, according to
plant biologist Jonathan Gorelick, scientific director of
the Judea Regional Research and Development Center in
Israel.
The centers efforts to isolate the plants active compounds and to assure these compounds are present
when the plant is grown in the greenhouse rather than in
the wild is the topic of Gorelicks recenet presentation at
the 25th Judea and Samaria Research Studies Conference
at Ariel University.
This is a plant that only grows in Israel, Jordan, and

the Sinai, and has been used traditionally by Bedouins for
controlling diabetes, Gorelick said. Ive been screening
different Israeli plants for diabetes and this is one of the
best candidates.
In a study published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology in October 2011, Gorelick and his team describe how
they tested the effects of the plant on a particular Negev
rodent with a nutritionally induced model of diabetes.
When the animals were given an oral glucose tolerance
test, blood-glucose levels returned immediately to normal
levels only in the ones that had been fed sharp varthemia
before the test.
We also did a longer-term study in which we mixed the
plant with their food and showed the [positive] effects,
This photo of sharp varthemia was taken in the
Mir Forest between Jerusalem and the Judean
Desert.
says Gorelick. Consumption of the yellow-flowering

plant increased sugar absorption in the rodents
muscle and fat cells, and reduced blood-sugar levels.
Gorelick and his research collaborators have identified one of the active compounds responsible for
these effects, and continue to search for others. At
the same time, they are experimenting to find the
best way to grow the plant agriculturally with its
active compounds intact so that it could be cultivated as a commercially available natural treatment
for diabetes.
From the wild to the greenhouse

Many medicinal plants, when grown in greenhouses, dont produce the compounds they do in
the wild because those compounds are a defense
response to conditions in the wild, he explains.
Were trying to emulate those stimulators from the
wild in the greenhouse setting.
The nonprofit Judea Regional R&D Center is
among eight agricultural research centers in Israels
periphery regions. These centers are supervised and
supported by the Israeli Ministry of Science and academically sponsored by Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev.
The Judea center focuses on industrial research
and development of products, technologies, patents
and inventions related to regional ecology, desertification, climate change, wastewater recycling, desert
farming techniques, and indigenous plants for eating
as well as medicinal, cosmetic, pest control, landscaping and other uses.
Two Judea Regional R&D Center Ph.D.s and two
research technicians are working on the Goldilocks
project with collaborators from the Hebrew University Faculty of Nutrition in Rehovot for the animal
studies, and with plant biologist Nurit Bernstein
from the governments Volcani Agricultural Research
Organization on the greenhouse studies.
Los Angeles native Gorelick earned undergraduate and doctorate degrees in plant biology from Cornell University and Rutgers University, respectively,
and did post-doc work in the Hebrew University of
Jerusalems School of Pharmacy under Prof. Raphael
Mechoulam, a worldwide pioneer of research into
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Healthy Living
New tech approach

to stuttering
NiNiSpeech can revolutionize the whole
industry of stuttering treatment, not just the
treatment itself, says company founder
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Stuttering is not considered a disability, yet
it holds back some 68 million people worldwide from job promotions, class presentations, voicing their opinions, and a whole
slew of other daily life experiences.
An Israeli mobile app could now
empower people who stutter to rise
above their often overlooked condition
using the worlds first stuttering detection algorithm.
Almost 80 percent of employers will
not hire a stutterer, even for jobs that the
stutterer doesnt need to speak. Add to
that, 60 percent of kids who stutter are
bullied, said Yair Shapira, founder &
CEO of NiNiSpeech.
NiNiSpeech is a mobile
health solution that helps
people who stutter (PWS)
maintain fluent speech,
and allows speech-language pathologists (SLP)
to monitor their clients
fluenc y in everyday
settings.
The secret that most
people dont know is
Yair Shapira
that almost all stutterers
can speak fluently. When
theyre alone in a room,
they speak fluently. When theyre in the
clinic, they speak fluently. The problem
happens that when theyre in the real
world, 85 percent lapse back into stuttering, Shapira said.
Shapira, a veteran of the Israeli hightech field, has watched his 17-year-old
son try new therapies and treatments for
his stammer to no avail. The coincidence
that he did his Ph.D. on the effects of
mental stress on human voice before
he knew his son would stutter did not
leave him indifferent.
Shapira recently left his executive
position at DiViNetworks, and started
NiNiSpeech together with Yoav Medan,
who led IBMs speech processing unit
and served as CTO of InSightec, and
Ofer Amir, who heads Tel Aviv University School of Communication Disorders.
The industry of stuttering treatment
is old-fashioned and non-technological,
says Shapira. NiNiSpeech can revolutionize the whole industry of stuttering
treatment, not just the treatment itself.
The Haifa-based startup, launched in
January, has already picked up a handful of innovation awards and has sparked
interest from around the globe. Clinical
trials are beginning in four countries.
A buzz in your hand
The World Health Organization defines

stuttering as a speech disorder in which
the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations
of sounds, syllables, words or phrases
as well as involuntary silent pauses or
blocks in which the person who stutters
is unable to produce sounds.
When people stutter outside of therapy sessions, they often have no awareness that theyre hung up on a word.
The need for an out-of-clinic approach
is crucial, Shapira says.
Thats where NiNiSpeech comes in.
The mobile solution,
which will cost $50 to
$100 monthly, provides
the stutterer with immediate feedback on speech
fluency via a buzz or
vibration that operates
in real-time and works in
a variety of languages.
The technology gives
the stutterer a chance to
monitor performance,
improve fluency, achieve
speech goals and gain
rewards. The second
stage of the solution, unique in the field,
measures stuttering.
When youre on a diet, you weigh
yourself. When you run or do fitness,
you have a stopwatch so you know how
well youre doing, whether youre progressing or not. In speech theres no correlation between subjective experience
of the stutterer and his real stutter, says
Shapira.
So, a stutterer can work for one to
three months and still wont know if he
progressed. This is a system that will let
him know.
Thirdly, NiNiSpeech which is meant
to be used together with speech therapy
gives SLPs critical real-time feedback
from outside the clinic.
Therapists have no clue how well
their patients are doing because in the
clinic you dont stutter, in the same
way you dont eat cake at the dietitians
office, says Shapira.
The NiNiSpeech solution gives therapists speech fluency metrics, allows
them to view clients speech performance using a browser dashboard,
and even listen to recordings of stutter
clusters.
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Clinical trials
around the world
One percent of the population is affected by stuttering,

says Shapira, including a handful of celebrities such
as Vice President Joe Biden, singer Marc Anthony, and
golfer Tiger Woods.
Shapira reports that people from across the globe
have written in to welcome NiNiSpeech and have asked
to partake in clinical trials.
The company, which is currently trying to raise capital, has received a grant from the Chief Scientist of the
Ministry of Economy but is mostly bootstrapped.
From the start, it has wowed the health innovation
field picking up first place in StarTAU & LeumiTechs
pitch night in February and first place in the Socialize15
startup contest, where it was selected by Forbes, PWS,
and OurCrowd as the leading startup offering technology solutions to social needs.
The company was recently chosen by Israel Brain
Technologies to present at BrainTech2015, held on
March 12th.
And, on May 18, NiNiSpeech won the $100,000 grand
prize for first place in the Merage Institute Entrepreneurs Competition.
Now, NiNiSpeech is heading to clinical trials in the
United States, China, Portugal and Israel.
The Chinese trials could make the greatest impact,
says Shapira. In China, it is considered a family shame

if you stutter. And there are very few speech therapists
in China.
Assuming the trials are successful, Shapira says the
NiNiSpeech application should be on the market by
summer.
NiNiSpeech is named for Shapiras son, Niv, whose
stutter was especially prominent when he tried to say
his name, Ni-Ni-Niv.
NiNiSpeech is named
for Shapiras son, Niv,
whose stutter was
especially prominent
when he tried to say
his name, Ni-Ni-Niv.
NiNiSpeech can show the therapist whats going on
outside the clinic and it changes the way that the person who stutters can see his stutter, says Shapira. It
can truly revolutionize the whole industry of stuttering
treatment.
For more information, visit ninispeech.com.
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Israeli scientists find an unexpected link
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Israeli medical researchers unexpectedly discovered that only when
a baby is weaned off
mo th e r s milk doe s
a formerly unknown
developmental step in
the process of pancreatic beta-cell maturation
begin to occur.
In experiments with
Yuval Dor
lab mice, this critical
d eve l o p m e n t a l s te p
appeared to be triggered exclusively by
the change of diet.
The surprising discovery was made
while scientists were attempting to
understand why only a small subset of
insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas of adult organisms can replicate
leading to tissue regeneration and
why the number of replicating cells
declines with advancing age.
The study results were published in
the March 9 issue of the medical journal
Developmental Cell by Professor Yuval
Dor and research associate Miri Stolovich-Rain at the Hebrew University of Jerusalems Institute for Medical Research
Israel-Canada, in collaboration with Prof.
Benjamin Glaser from the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Hoping to understand the effects
of aging on beta-cell replication, the
scientists induced hyperglycemia a
condition of excessive glucose (sugar)
in the bloodstream in suckling mice,
expecting that because of their young
age their beta cells would exhibit a
superb regenerative ability.
Instead, the researchers discovered
that the mice actually didnt begin to
develop the cellular machinery that
allows for tissue regeneration until
after they were weaned from high-fat
mothers milk (or formula) to high-carbohydrate chow.
In addition, insulin secretion in
response to high levels of glucose was
much lower in the suckling mice than
in adult mice.
The data suggest that regenerative
potential is a trait of mature tissues,
which has to develop actively, similar
to functional maturation, rather than
an innate feature of newly born cells,
said Dor, a developmental biologist.
When to wean
The researchers concluded that the
dietary transition from fat-rich milk to
carbohydrate-rich food
kick-starts the maturation of beta cells so that
they can replicate and
secrete proper amounts
of insulin in response to
conditions such as high
blood-glucose levels.
The exact molecular
signal that sets off these
events is still to be determined through further
research that could help
advance the understanding of diabetes
and even how to treat it.
Its possible, for instance, that the
maturation step associated with weaning can be relevant for attempting to
direct the differentiation of embryonic
stem cells into fully functional beta
cells for transplantation to diabetes
patients.
Next, the Israeli researchers plan to
study how premature weaning in mice
and in humans may affect the long-term
health of beta cells and the chances of
developing diabetes .
Dor is careful to stress that the published findings should not make mothers fretful about weaning their babies
from breast milk or formula too early
or too late.
We are NOT saying in this paper
anything about the long-term effects,
good or bad, of premature weaning, he wrote in an email. What we
found is that weaning triggers beta-cell
maturation and that it is a previously
unrecognized part of this important
process. The long-term impact of interfering with the process by premature or
delayed weaning is being studied now.
The research was funded by grants
from the Beta Cell Biology Consortium
of the U.S. National Institutes of Health,
the JDRF, the European Research Council, the Helmsley Charitable Trust,
the DON Foundation, BIRAX, and the
I-CORE Program of the Israel Science
Foundation.
Previously, Dor and James Shapiro,
a world renowned researcher in islet
transplantation for diabetes at the
University of Alberta, Canada, identified a key signal that prompts insulinproducing beta cells in the pancreas to
form new beta cells in mice. This breakthrough may ultimately help researchers find ways to restore or increase beta
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Use the chair as a centerpiece of exercising
RICHARD PORTUGAL
Proper balance bestows a feeling of wellbeing and confidence to any human being
on our planet. It is especially important to
seniors. A confident walk, without the fear
of falling, enables any senior to accomplish activities of daily living with growing confidence and assurance. For seniors
who have lost muscle mass and bone density, a simple trip or fall may precipitate a
broken hip, arm, or leg necessitating a
stay in the hospital, or worse. It may end
ones independence and require moving
to an assisted living or nursing home.
But balance, like strength, endurance, and flexibility, can be dramatically
improved with a few simple exercises
requiring but a few minutes a day. Put on
your sneakers, minimize that cane, use
your walker less and regain the stride of
your youth!
Exercise 1:
Facing the back of a chair with both hands
lightly holding onto the chairs back, rise
up on your toes as if reaching for a top

shelf in your kitchen. Then lower until
your heel touches the floor. Perform this
exercise for ten repetitions, rest, and then
perform once again.
Exercise 2:
Standing sideways to the chair, place
your closest hand lightly upon the chairs
back. Slowly raise your foot by bending
the knee until your foot is two inches
off the floor. Hold to a count of 15 to 30.
Lower your leg and duplicate the movement with your other foot. Repeat raising
and alternating both feet five times. Rest
and then perform once again.
Exercise 3:
back. Slowly raise your knee until your
thigh is parallel with the floor. Hold to
a count of 15 to 30. Lower your leg and
duplicate the movement with your other
Beating the biological clock

For a variety of reasons,
many women choose to postpone childbearing until they
are in their 30s or even 40s.
But the difficult truth is that
the biological clock waits for
no one, and fertility declines
with age.
Increasingly, young women
are turning to a procedure
that allows them to freeze
their eggs while they are fertile and store them until a
pregnancy is desired.
For young women who
wish to postpone pregnancy,
The physicians of The Valley Hospital Fertility
egg freezing can provide the
Center, from left, Dr. Ali Nasseri, medical direcpeace of mind in knowing
tor; Dr. Keri L. Greenseid, and Dr. Dehan Chen,
that when they are ready to
associate clinical director.
start or expand their family,
they will have their own eggs
of the Fertility Center. Egg freezing
available to them, said Dr. Ali Nasseri,
can also be used to preserve fertility in
medical director of The Valley Hospital
young women diagnosed with cancer.
Fertility Center in Paramus.
The eggs are harvested and frozen prior
Egg freezing follows the same initial
to the start of cancer treatments, such
steps as an IVF cycle. A woman takes
as chemotherapy and radiation.
fertility shots to boost her egg production and then has them extracted and
It is important that any woman considering egg freezing speak with a reprofrozen. When the woman is ready to
ductive endocrinologist and infertility
become pregnant the frozen eggs are
specialist about their individual situathawed, fertilized, and transferred to
tion, estimated rate of future success,
the uterus as embryos.
and the process involved, said Dr. Keri
Egg freezing allows women to store
L. Greenseid.
their healthy, unfertilized eggs until a
To learn more about egg freezing and
time in the future when they are ready
the other services offered at The Valley
to start a family, diminishing the pressure of the biological clock, said Dr.
Hospital Fertility Center, call (201) 634Dehan Chen, associate clinical director
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knee. Repeat raising and alternating both

knees five times. Rest and then perform
once again.
Exercise 4:
back. Raise the leg furthest from the chair
sideways away from your body as if you
were going to perform a split. Hold for
a count of 15 to 30. Slowly bring the leg
down to the floor and repeat once again.
Then, turn so your other hand is holding
the chair and repeat exercise with your
other leg; rest and repeat.
Exercise 5:
back. Slowly bring your foot backwards
by bending your knee and hold for a
count of 15 to 30. Return your foot to the
floor and repeat with your other leg. Rest
and then perform once again.
Exercise 6:
Standing sideways to the chair, place your

closest hand lightly upon the chairs back.
Raise one foot slightly off the floor and
cross it over other foot. Hold for a count
of 15 to 30. Slowly bring the leg down to
the floor and repeat crossover once again.
Then, turn so your other hand is holding
the chair and repeat exercise with your
other leg; rest and repeat.
Hints: Keep your abdominal muscles
firm during all movements and your knees
slightly bent. As your balance improves,
increase the holding count to 45 or 60
seconds. Remember always lightly hold
onto the chair. Good luck and have fun!
Richard Portugal is the founder and
owner of Fitness Senior Style, which
exercises seniors for balance, strength, and
cognitive fitness in their own homes. He
has been certified as a senior trainer by the
American Senior Fitness Association. For
further information, call (201) 937-4722.
Summer heat may affect

babys birth weight
A new Israeli-American study
finds a correlation between
outside temperatures during
pregnancy and birth outcomes.
Anyone who has been in the last stages of
pregnancy during hot summer months
knows that the heat can sap an expectant
mothers energy and swell her feet. Surprisingly, the outside temperature also
affects the baby in her womb, according
to a recently published study by Israeli and
American researchers.
The study
showed that air
temperature
was associated
with decreased
birth weight.
The study showed that air temperature
was associated with decreased birth weight
as well as the earlier onset of labor.
For example, an increase of 8.5 degrees
Celsius [15 degrees Farenheit] in the last
trimester of average exposure was associated with a 17-gram [six-ounce] decrease in
birthweight, said Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev Professor Itai Kloog of the

department of geography and environmental development.
We also found that exposure to high air
temperature during pregnancy can cause
preterm birth, said Kloog, whose previous
published studies looked at the detrimental effect of air pollution on pregnant mothers and their newborns; and how artificial
light at night may increase the risk of breast
cancer.
The evaluation of temperature and birth
outcomes was carried out between 2000
and 2008 in Massachusetts. Kloog collaborated with colleagues from the School
of Public Health at Harvard University
Steven J. Melly, Professor Brent A. Coull,
Francesco Nordio and Professor Joel D.
Schwartz.
To do this, the scientists developed a
novel high-resolution air temperature
estimation model to predict daily air
temperature within one kilometer. They
then estimated address-level exposure
to air temperature during various prenatal exposure periods from conception
through birth for each mother involved
in the study.
Their paper, entitled Using SatelliteBased Spatiotemporal Resolved Air Temperature Exposure to Study the Association between Ambient Air Temperature
and Birth Outcomes in Massachusetts, was
published in the US National Institutes of
Health journal Environmental Health Perspectives last month.
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apartment homes are filling up quickly,
and now that construction is complete,
the community is open and residents are
moving in. It wont be long until were fully
occupied.
To learn more about Brightview
Tenafly, please call Sherry Zimmer at (201)
510-2060.
For more information on Brightview Senior Living, please visit www.
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Happy Passover
Adler Aphasia Center highlights

National Awareness Month
Adler Aphasia Center has joined Lingraphica, a healthcare technology
company providing products and
services for individuals with aphasia, verbal apraxia, and other speech
and cognitive needs, and the National
Aphasia Association (NAA), in support
of National Aphasia Awareness Month
( June 1 June 30). The three organizations launched a Faces of Aphasia
campaign to raise awareness of this
devastating condition, and spread a
message of hope for all those affected.
The campaign features an interactive, branded Faces of Aphasia website on which individuals, organizations, caregivers, and speech-language
pathologists share their aphasia stories;
a 50-second awareness video designed
to be shared across social media channels; and a free e-book entitled What
To Expect When Youre Not Expecting
Aphasia, which is being made available to everyone who requests it.
We are proud to join this newly
launched, multi-channel awareness
campaign, said Karen Tucker, executive director of Adler Aphasia Center.
With a rising number of people diagnosed with aphasia each year, it is critical to shed light on this common condition, spread a message of hope for
recovery, and share the stories of those
affected by the disorder.
Spearheaded by NAA and
Lingraphica leaders in the industry

representing the individuals affected
by the condition, and the professionals
who provide care to those individuals,
respectively the Faces of Aphasia
campaign will unite everyone whose
mission it is to change the perception and awareness of aphasia in this
country.
Aphasia is a neurological disorder that
affects a persons ability to use and process speech, and is generally a result of
a stroke or traumatic brain injury. About
two million Americans are living with
aphasia, making the condition more
common than ALS, Parkinsons Disease,
cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy.
Upwards of 80,000 Americans acquire
the disorder each year.
However, most people have never
heard of it.
Its imperative for individuals to not
only learn about aphasia and understand what causes it, but also to know
that there is real hope out there for all
those suffering with this condition,
said Andrew Gomory, chief executive
officer at Lingraphica. The ability to
communicate is absolutely essential in
maintaining identity and independence
after a stroke or traumatic brain injury.
More information about the
campaign can be found at www.
facesofaphasia.com.
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Here at The Chateau we combine the very same sophisticated technologies and
techniques used by leading hospitals with hands on skilled rehabilitative/nursing care.
Sub Acute care ensures that patients return home with the highest degree of function
possible.
Our Care Service
Jersey, Brightview Tenafly features assisted

living apartment homes for people who
need some support services and are looking for a vibrant lifestyle. Wellspring Village, Brightviews specialized program
and environment for memory care, was
designed to facilitate memory and celebrate life.
Our focus is on possibilities rather than
limitations for all of our residents, continued Alina. And our goal is the highest
quality of life. Because Brightview Tenafly
is brand new, the community incorporates
the latest thinking and design features to
help residents make the most of each day.
Creating moments of joy for seniors
and families is a Brightview hallmark, she
concluded.
With highly trained and quality associates as well as Brightviews SPICE program, a proactive, holistic approach to
wellness addressing all of the dimensions
of wellness spiritual, physical, intellectual, cultural and emotional Brightview
Tenaflys innovative approach to assisted
living and dementia care offers peace of
mind to families.
Brightview Tenafly has proven to
be a popular choice, explained Sherry
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Holy Name Center
awarded $5 million
Russell Berrie grant
for simulation learning
Holy Name Medical Center has received a $5 million grant matching the biggest gift in the hospitals history for its Institute for Simulation Learning from The Russell Berrie Foundation. The funds
will be used to expand the physical operation, staff,
and equipment of the institute, the only hospitalbased simulation center in North Jersey, in its effort
to provide an ethical, humanistic method to learning
rather than a purely technical or academic approach
used in the majority of hospitals nationwide.
This grant is a way to bring innovation to our
community that we felt would really transform the
standards of medical education here as well as train
to prevent accidental deaths, said Angelica Berrie, president of The Russell Berrie Foundation.
Its not just about improving physical skills its
also about soft skills like how you apologize when a
medical procedure fails. And it gives confidence to
staff members theres a lot of burnout in caregivers when youre so close to tragedy. It helps them to
talk about it.
Established in 2013, the Institute teaches healt
care providers and emergency workers through
real-life scenarios, using actors and high-tech mannequins that breathe, blink, and bleed, among other
bodily functions, how to handle unplanned events
and complications that may arise during medical
procedures or emergency situations. For example,
after a pregnant mannequin gives birth, it starts
hemorrhaging and health care workers must immediately team up to save the patient. The Institute
also simulates the conditions of difficult situations
for medical personnel to practice, such as a physician delivering bad news to a patient.
At the beginning this was about improving skills
but its so much more, said Michael Maron, president and CEO of Holy Name. Its an integration of
multiple specialties that is transformational in how
we care for patients and how the staff works as a
team, while anticipating variables that can occur. We
want to weave this educational component into the
entire fabric of Holy Name.
More than 2,300 health care professionals, first
responders, and nursing students from the tristate area have been trained at the Institute and
the demand is growing. In response, the Institute
will be physically expanding, thanks to the Berrie
Foundation grant. New practice rooms, computers,
software, and simulators will be added to increase
the number of simulation-based courses available.
Nurses, physicians, medical students, emergency
responders and corporate participants will be
trained to promote patient safety and foster humanism in medicine.
This grant marks the second time Holy Name has
received $5 million from The Russell Berrie Foundation, a measure of The Foundations ongoing, generous support for more than two decades. The bulk of
the first $5 million gift was used to create the hospitals Regional Cancer Center, housed in the Russ and
Angelica Berrie Pavilion, while a portion was given
to the Medical Centers Millennium Campaign.
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Cranes Mill presents open house on June 29

Dont miss your chance to tour the entire Cranes Mill campus,
including independent living cottages and apartments, and
the renowned Cranes Mill Health Center.
This event marks the communitys only open house of the
summer, and models on display will include one-and two-bedroom apartments plus an array of freestanding, single-level
cottages complete with private garages, outdoor space, and
more.
Cranes Mill is a continuing care retirement community
offering independent living for seniors 62 and over with the
guarantee of excellent health care for the future in our Health

Center including assisted living, skilled nursing, memory
support, and sub-acute rehabilitation departments.
Located on 48 acres with a Certified Wildlife Habitat and
pond, Cranes Mill offers its residents a unique combination
of serene nature with a convenient suburban location in West
Caldwell.
The event takes place on Monday, June 29, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Guests can RSVP by calling (973) 276-3070. For more about
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Promenade Senior Living featured in hit music video
Several residents of Promenade Senior Livings community
in Chestnut Ridge, New York, are featured in a video promoting Columbia Records recording artist George Ezras
new hit song Budapest. The video, which was released on
May 19, has more than 170,000 hits on YouTube, and was
also featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
and Jimmy Fallons Tumblr account.
Im thrilled that Promenade was selected as the backdrop for this video, said Debbie Corwin, Promenades
director of community relations. The residents involved
had a fantastic time participating, and I see the great joy
they receive in watching it over and over!
It began when Columbia Records created a video in March
2015 featuring elementary school children at P.S. 8 in Brooklyn talking about the song and discussing the lyrics. It was
such a huge hit on YouTube, Columbia Records marketing team decided to produce a follow-up video this time
with the reactions of seniors. Remembering an ice bucket
challenge video with Promenade residents that Promenade

created and posted on YouTube, a Columbia Records marketer, and close friend of Corwin, showed it to her colleagues
during their marketing meeting. Columbias staff loved it so
much that the decision was made to use Promenade and its
residents for the next video. Filming took place on April 29.
Twenty one of Promenades residents can be seen talking
about the meaning of the lyrics, singing along, and dancing.
We loved how involved the Promenade residents became
with the ice bucket challenge, and how the staff encouraged
them to participate and really enjoy themselves, said Sarah
Bromley, marketing specialist at Columbia Records. We
were excited to have them bring that same energy to this
project, and the result was a really fun video that received
fantastic reception!
The Budapest video can be viewed at smarturl.it/
GeorgevsSeniors
Promenade Senior Living, located in the Lower Hudson
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the cultural and religious needs
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Accommodation for residents preferences in Jewish programs and activities
Under Kosher supervision of RCBC
Full calendar of Jewish services and programs
CareOne provides a greater sensitivity to the needs of the Jewish customers we

serve. We strive to meet the needs of all our residents and guarantee your stay
with us.
A Promenade resident on a video promoting

recording artist George Ezra.
Valley of New York, operates a number of assisted living communities in the region. The Chestnut Ridge
location has been operational for more than a decade.
Promenade provides seniors with exceptional housing and service options, enabling them to enjoy their
retirement years to the fullest. More information can
be found at www.PromenadeSenior.com. For more
information about Promenade at Chestnut Ridge, call
Corwin at (845) 620-0606.
How loud is too loud?

Protect your hearing!
CareOne at Teaneck Programs
Our world is a very noisy place! We are often subjected

to loud, damaging sounds without being truly aware of
the consequences. Maybe it is at home (using a hair-dryer)
or your workplace, or hobbies such as listening to music
(especially with ear-buds), hunting, motorcycles, or working with power tools. Did you know that excessive noise
exposure is one of the most common causes of hearing
loss? And, unlike other forms of hearing loss, noise damage can be prevented by taking a few simple precautions.
The rapidity of hearing damage depends on the intensity (loudness), how long you are exposed and how
often exposure occurs to the sound. For each five-decibel increase, the safe time before hearing damage can
occur is cut in half.
A simple rule of thumb for when to take precautions
is if you need to shout to be heard by someone standing
three feet away.
Rules regarding decibel levels and exposure to evaluate
potentially dangerous situations:
Noises between 85-90 decibels, such as lawn mowers,
hair dryers, noisy household appliances, and some recreation vehicles, are dangerous if exposed to more than
eight hours
Two hours of exposure to 100-decibel noise such as
chainsaws or personal listening devices is dangerous;
Sounds of 120 decibels such as thunder, ambulance
sirens, rock concerts (if directly in front of the speakers),
and affairs can cause hearing damage after only 7 to 10
minutes!
Shotgun blasts and airplane take-offs register at 140
decibels and are immediately dangerous.
There may be damage to your ears if sounds seem
muffled or you notice a ringing in your ears after noise
exposure. With repeated exposure to loud sounds, this
can become a permanent hearing loss.
To protect your hearing when exposed to loud noise,
use quality earplugs. It is a small price to pay for a lifetime
of better hearing. Custom-made earplugs can be made for
musicians, hunters, dentists, and even motorcycle enthusiasts. Also, remember to turn down the volume on televisions, radios, and personal stereos.
More information is available from Zounds Hearing of
Bergen County, which offers free hearing examinations. If
your loved ones are suggesting you are experiencing hearing loss, you should get it checked out soon. Zounds Hearing of Bergen County can be reached at (201) 497-8797,
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If your loved one suffers from dementia or related disorders, the newly
expanded Alzheimers Care Pavilion at Daughters of Miriam Center/The
Gallen Institute is your answer. To better meet the needs of our community,
the Center has added a second, newly re-furbished floor to the pavilion,
creating a safe and secure home-like environment for your family member.
Residents receive 24-hour medical care in the only Jewish JCAHO*
accredited facility in the state of New Jersey, from nurses and physicians
with the experience and training to meet their specialized needs. The
interdisciplinary team creates an individualized care plan for each resident.
Structured activities run from 8 AM to 9 PM every day to help maintain
residents at their highest level of function.
The Center is located just over five miles from Routes 4 and 17 and directly
off of the Garden State Parkway. In addition, we are easily accessible from
the NJ Turnpike, Routes 80, 46 and 3 and less than 15 miles
from New York City. With its convenient location and state-of-the-art
services in beautiful, private and semi-private accommodations, our new
pavilion is the perfect choice for Bergen and Passaic County residents.
You can rest easy knowing that your loved one is receiving the best
possible care from the dementia care experts at Daughters of Miriam
Center/The Gallen Institute.
To find out how Daughters of Miriam Center may care for your loved
one suffering from dementia, or for a tour of the new pavilion, please
contact the Admissions Department at 973-253-5358.
No entry fee is required for admission into any Daughters of Miriam
Center/The Gallen Institute program or facility.
We are pleased to accept Medicaid, Medicare, private pay and
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1. Stay hydrated: Begin drinking about

20 ounces of fluid, preferably a combination of water and electrolytes, about two
hours before strenuous exercise in the
heat.
2. Take it slow: It takes time to adapt to
a warmer temperature. So ramp up your
workout intensity gradually over the span
of a week or two so your body can get
acclimated to the higher temperature.
3. Dress for the weather: Choose light
weight clothing made from a wicking
material to keep you cooler and drier.
4. Schedule wisely: Morning and evening are best times because it is cooler.
5. Adjust for the conditions: Slow or
speed up the intensity depending how
you feel.
6. Wear sunscreen: This is something
you should do year-round. Choose a sport
SPF. When applying dont forget to apply
the tip of your ears, back of your neck,
and lips.
7. Check your meds: Some prescriptions
have warning signs against sun exposure

and heat.
8. Change it up: Summer is a time to
consider alternate activities outside. Try
swimming, bicycling, hiking, and running/walking outside. Have fun!
9. Listen to warning signs: No matter
your fitness level, its vital to remain alert
to what your body is telling you. As the
saying goes, You have one body, listen to
it. If you experience dizziness, confusion,
excessive sweating, fatigue or weakness,
nausea, vomiting, muscle crampness, and
increased heart rate, get to a cool place
and rehydrate!
10. Cool down: The first thing you want
to do when you finish the lighter cool
down portion of your workout is to cool
off the rest of the way. Drink some liquids,
pour water on your neck and wrist, sit in
a cool ventilated area, and take a cool
shower, all great ways to get your body
cooled off.
Mina DeSantis is a personal Trainer at
THE GYM of Englewood.
Brightview Senior Living announces

Paramus executive director
Stephen Nichols has joined Brightview
Paramus, a Brightview Senior Living
community in Paramus, as executive
director.
I am looking forward to working
with Brightviews exceptional team as
well as leading the team at Brightview
Paramus, said Mr. Nichols. Opening
the community and bringing Brightviews worry-free lifestyle to Bergen
County is exciting.
Brightview Paramus is scheduled to
open in the spring of 2016 at 406 Forest
Avenue in Paramus and the Welcome
Center is scheduled to open in early
July 2015.
The community will offer a total of
170 Independent Living apartment
homes, Assisted Living apartment
homes and a specialized program and
environment for individuals living with
Alzheimers disease and other memory
impairments, known as Wellspring
Village.
As Executive Director, Stephen
is responsible for all aspects of the
community including providing high
quality resident service and care, overall resident satisfaction, and hiring top
notch associates.
With extensive experience in operations, Stephen most recently worked as
the Regional Vice President (RVP) for
Atria Senior Living, where he oversaw
the operation of 18 senior living communities in New York and Connecticut.
Prior to Stephens RVP role, he was an
executive director for 11 years for Atria,
and worked in six different communities in New Jersey and New York, where
he specialized in troubleshooting struggling communities.
Before his career in senior living, Stephen was very successful in the Food
Service industry, where he worked for
seven years as both a Regional Trainer
for TGI Fridays and a Director of Operations for Boston Market.
For more information or to schedule a visit, please call Samantha at
201-957-1955.
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Korach: What kind of leadership?
ho speaks for the people?

Does having a leader at
the front of a movement
indicate strength, or does
it open the potential for egos to obscure
the collective message?
Parashat Korach sits at the crossroads
of these questions, as the Israelite murmurings of dissent and complaints against
Moses coalesce into revolt.
Complaint for the nation of former
slaves is nothing new, but now a leader
attempts to speak for them. Korachs claim
resonates: For all of the community are
holy, all of them, and God is in their midst.
Why then do you raise yourself above
Gods congregation? (Numbers 16:3)
If everyone is holy, why does one person
have closer access to God? Mosess initial
silence his chagrin that causes him to fall
on his face stems from his ongoing questioning about the leadership role that God
has chosen him for. Maybe, for a second,
he believes that Korach is right.
The Torah is suspicious of Korachs
argument even before it is raised.
He might speak for the people, but he
is introduced by his lineage, as are his coconspirators, and by their roles as chieftains of the community, chosen in the
assembly, men of repute. (Number 16:2)
These are not the Israelite rank and file;
they might not have the direct access to
Conversion
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Mr. Downing, the life coach, a Mormon

with a bachelors degree in musical theater,
replied, to overcome bodily shame.
Downing said that blindfolding and shouting obscenities were helpful tools to trigger
old memories and experiences connected
with clients same-sex attractions.
Elaine Berk, a co-founder of JONAH and
supervisor of its email and website components, told the jury last Friday that she had
a bachelors degree in sociology from Rutgers University but had no formal training in
psychology, biology, neurology, or genetics,
although she has written extensively about
the science of homosexuality.
God that Moses does, but

as Low ego, high impact.
they have power.
This model is a critical chalOnce Moses recovers, he
lenge to a narrative of social
recognizes that it is ego, and
change that is told through
not a greater good, that motithe leadership of extraordivates their actions. He sets
nary individuals.
up a contest between indiBeing Moses is great but
viduals, challenging Korach
looking for Moses opens
and his followers to demthe door for the creation of
Rabbi Rachel
onstrate that they can be
Korach as well.
Kahn-Troster
spokespeople for God.
The chasidic dilemma, In
Director of
This challenge makes visthe coming world, they will
programs, Truah:
ible a divide between leadernot ask me: Why were you
The Rabbinic Call
for Human Rights
ship in the name of service
not Moses? They will ask me:
and leadership out of the
Why were you not Zusya?
need for recognition. Korach
is critical for leaders who are
needs to be seen as needed, even as he
so bent on being Moses that they forget
speaks for the many. And by doing so,
what Moses largely did not that leaderrather than giving voice to the masses of
ship is a form of service.
Israelites, he silences them.
Maybe if the Israelites, in their thirst
Leaders can take over a movement
and pain, had tried to be leaderful, they
or they can confer legitimacy. We are so
could have asked Moses deeper quesused to looking for the Moses in any given
tions. They could have had holy rebellion,
movement that we might fail to recognize
and brought transformation, rather than
different models of leadership.
death. Movements of the many are the livOne of the critiques of the #BlackLivesing embodiment of Korachs truthful chalMatter movement of the past year is that
lenge: For all of the community are holy.
leaders have not emerged that there is
To be part of such a movement can be to
no modern Martin Luther King, Jr. The
live in holy space.
youth protesters response has been that
Last fall, two days before Thanksgivthey are not leaderless but leaderful, a
ing, I marched with thousands of other
movement of the many. Another activist
activists through the streets of New York,
characterized their approach to change
protesting the failure of a Missouri grand
She said she founded JONAH after her son,

who was about 16 or 17 at the time, started
changing his habits, his dress, and who his
friends were. She said it made her hysterical most of the time.
Convinced that her son was not born gay,
Ms. Berk located secular and Christian organizations that offered help in changing mens
same-sex attractions, but she found no such
Jewish groups.
She said that a Protestant minister offered
to help Judaicize his Christian theology so
it would be relevant to Jews who sought such
treatment.
Ms. Berk acknowledged using the term
gay deathstyle, and said the statistics
prove that homosexuality is a very dangerous lifestyle.
She likened same-sex attractions to other

disorders and/or addictions and/or problems of obesity, alcoholism, gambling, etc.,
adding that the Torah does not believe that
anyone is born gay. It believes we are all born
males and females who grow up into men
and women, and anybody can feel a samesex attraction, but you are prohibited from
acting on it.
As of press time, the plaintiffs planned
to wrap up their case with testimony from
Michael Ferguson, a Mormon who also
alleges mistreatment at the hands of JONAH
and its affiliated counselors.
The defense is expected to call witnesses,
including leaders of marathon weekend therapy sessions aimed at helping men overcome
their same sex attractions.
This challenge
makes visible a
divide between
leadership in
the name of
service and
leadership out
of the need for
recognition.
RABBI RACHEL KAHN-TROSTER
jury to indict the police officer who shot

Michael Brown. In my professional role
as an activist, Im used to being at the
head of rallies, but that night, there was
tremendous power in being one with
the crowd as we marched up the FDR,
chanted Whose streets? Our streets?
and held silent vigil outside the U.N. for
those who died through state violence.
It was important that leaders like myself
were there as participants and that we
had put our egos aside. There was no
Korach and there was no Moses. But
there were many, many Zusyas.
A JONAH-connected counselor who

worked with plaintiff Sheldon Bruck and
the wife of a so-called ex-gay man also are
scheduled to testify.
Mr. LiMandri said that his organization
sees the JONAH case as being about religious
liberty. Individuals with same-sex attraction
have a right to seek counseling to live their
lives as they choose, Mr. LiMandri told an
interviewer earlier this year. It is a matter of
self-determination.
The defense is planning to introduce live
and video testimony from JONAH clients tellingtheir success stories about overcoming
their homosexual attractions.
The trial is expected to continue for
another week.
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15 Not like Sarah or Esther
16 Sophia who starred as Judith
17 One in 60, perhaps
18 ___ Nazi
19 Bug found in Israeli tofu in March 2015
20 Combs ones hair like The Fonz
22 Turn over (as in land)
24 Musically, they come after dos and res
25 Kosher cuisine
26 Kosher cuisine
28 Eisenstaedt item: abbr.
30 Chemical in some Ahava products
31 Like Yemenite food
35 Head of Hebrew University?
38 Kind of El Al pilot, at times
42 Kosher cuisine
45 Great Talmud Rav
46 Great Talmud Rav
47 The main characters in The Wolf of
Wall Street, for example
48 Scottish bocher
50 School for the little ones
52 Kosher cuisine
57 Answer like Cain to God
62 Nassers org.
63 Dont ___ your esrog
64 Kosher cuisine
65 Charge usurious rates
67 Challah unit, e.g.
69 Like Casspi after a double-overtime
game, perhaps
70 Baby Moses reached for one, according
to a midrash
71 Spanish for the Yiddish double first
name Zev Wolf
72 Soon, to Shylock
73 Josephs brothers, once
74 That shyster! is one
75 Craves latkes
1 Like a November morning in Jerusalem,

perhaps
2 Jamie Geller calls it an easy, dairy-free
way to add richness and flavor to your
dishes
3 Where old seforim might be stored
4 Robin who featured Melissa Gilbert on an
episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and
Famous
5 Jacob and an angel got into one
6 Flaw of several Jewish kings
7 Make like an unshechted chicken
8 Like some kids on Simchat Torah
9 Many on the morning of Shavuot
10 Ad ___, like a shidduch
11 Pleasant hamantaschen feature
12 Something found in the City of David
13 Kosher cuisine
21 Its only Jewish community is in Nairobi
23 Asian capital popular with Israeli backpackers
27 Rachels sister, et al.
29 Something a bold gonif might do
31 Genre for Matisyahu, at times
32 Patriarchs
33 Jew follower
34 Its like cholent
36 G-ds brightest creation is one
37 Make like Esau in the field
39 An instrument Guster uses, for short
40 The Mishnah says it cannot be used to
light Shabbat candles
41 Mossad-like org. that was dissolved in
1945
43 Movie character who wears a black
breastplate
44 Like Hamas
49 CPAs, essentially
51 ___ it (be chutzpadik)
52 Kosher cuisine
53 Biblical woman from Bethlehem
54 Caribbean island whose Chabad is in
the city of Noord
55 Relaxes on the Eilat beach
56 Item found in a sweatshop
58 Analyze, in the Diamond District
59 It can be used to spread lashon hara
60 Ohio birthplace of astronaut Judith
Resnik
61 Many tour Israel in the summer
66 New Jew
68 Simian nuisance to Gilbert Gottfrieds
Iago
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Arts & Culture

2 by Wolf
New Yiddish Rep introduces old British playwright
From left, Stuart Cullen, Michael Fox, Fergal OHanlon, and Lev Herskovitz in The Irish Hebrew Lesson, the first play in 2 By
Wolf. The titular Wolf is playwright Wolf Mankowitz.
MIRIAM RINN
he hunted
are all on the
same side,
says the old
Jewish merchant in the first of
two one-act plays by British
writer Wolf Mankowitz, now OffOff Broadway at The Cell, 338
West 23rd St.
The merchant is speaking to
an Irish revolutionary who is hiding out in his upstairs shtiebel in
Cork in the early 1920s. That sentiment is central to Mankowitzs
worldview, as it was to millions of
left-leaning Jews in the twentieth
century. Their perspective arose
in a world where most Jews were
poor, and in the way of the world
were often crushed under the

heels of those who were richer
and more powerful.
New Yiddish Rep has adapted
two plays by Mankowitz that
show off his deep Jewish roots
and his identification with the
oppressed. In the first, The Irish
Hebrew Lesson, the aforementioned revolutionary sneaks into
the house where the old man is
davening to hide from the Black
and Tans, or British police, who
are after him. The merchant
takes the opportunity to practice his Irish, which he needs
to do business, and to teach
the young man a bit of Hebrew.
That Hebrew phrase comes in
handy when the police burst in
to search the house. The notion
of language as both unifying and

separating is meaningful to both
men, as is the concept of a foreign, and perhaps hated, tongue
becoming their own.
The Irish Hebrew Lesson is
a slight piece, helped by a fine
natural performance by Fergal
OHanlon as the young man with
the gun. Originally produced
in 1972 as a film, it starred Milo
OShea. In 1978, it was presented
as a play in London. Its most
unique feature may be that it is
multilingual Irish, Yiddish,
Hebrew, and English.
The second play is more substantive and more attuned to
the working-class concerns of
the generation of Angry Young
Men so influential in post-war
England. That is the generation

to which Mankowitz belonged.
Although he was educated at
Cambridge, Mankowitz grew up
in Londons rough East End.
The Bespoke Overcoat is
based on a short story by the classic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol
and echoes the sentiments found
in the Yiddish great I.L. Peretzs
short story Bontche Schweig.

Shane Baker plays Fender, a dead
shipping clerk who returns from
the underworld to visit Maury
(Michael Fox), a tailor who promised to make him a new winter coat. Working long days in a
freezing warehouse, Fender has
been wearing the same coat for
more than twenty years. When
Maury makes it clear that his coat
no longer can be mended, after
some negotiation, Fender agrees
to pay ten dollars for a new one.
But saving up that sum requires
enormous sacrifice. Fender has
to give up soup, and subsists on
bread and salt alone. His callous boss Ranting (Ilan Kwittken)
refuses to raise the heat in the
warehouse and Fender develops
a wicked cough. Maury, a confirmed boozer, is sympathetic,
but nothing helps.
Baker translates Mankowitzs
breakout 1953 play into a supple,
idiomatic Yiddish, filled with
humor and pathos, and he gives
a genuinely moving performance
as the poor clerk. (The original
play was later made into a movie
and won the Oscar in 1957 for
Best Short Subject.) Michael Fox,
who also plays the old man in the
first one act, is a genial Maury,
and you will root for them to succeed in their plan to get justice
for the ghostly Fender. Unlike
Bontche, Fender schemes to get
his own back. Mankowitz moved
the action to the East End, but it
is just as easy to imagine it taking
place in a New York City setting.
The two plays are directed by
Moshe Yassur, who also directed
the companys excellent Yiddish production of Waiting for
Godot. Although Mankowitz
achieved renown in the U.K, he
never was as well known in the
U.S. Perhaps his reputation will
rise in the language that probably was spoken in his childhood
home. Supertitles translate the
dialogue into English.
2 by Wolf runs through July
2. More information at (800)
838-3006.
New Yiddish Rep has adapted

two plays by Mankowitz that
show off his deep Jewish
roots and his identification
with the oppressed.
Calendar
River Dell Hadassah at
the River Edge Public
Library, 12:30 p.m.
Dairy refreshments.
685 Elm Ave.
(551) 206-8801.
Wednesday
Film/discussion in
Leonia: Congregation
Adas Emuno welcomes
writer/producer Larry
Richards, who will
screen and discuss his
documentary about
Borscht Belt comedians,
When Comedy Went to
School, 7:30 p.m. Light
refreshments. 254 Broad
Ave. (201) 592-1712 or
www.adasemuno.org.
Sunday
JUNE 21
Fathers Day BBQ in
Teaneck: Congregation
Blue Note Jazz Festival presents

Israeli jazz bassist/composer/
singer Avishai Cohen and his
From Darkness trio, including
Nitai Hershkovits on piano and Daniel Dor on drums,
performing two shows at Highline Ballroom in
Manhattan, Monday, June 29, and Tuesday, June 30, at
8 p.m. 431 W 16th St. www.highlineballroom.com.
JUNE
29, 30
Friday
JUNE 19
Shabbat in New City:
The Nanuet Hebrew
Center hosts its annual
Start of Summer-Meetand-Mingle Community
BBQ, 5:30 p.m., with
music by NHCs Temple
Dudes. Tot Shabbat at
5 and evening services
with music at 6:30. All
welcome, including
potential new members.
Weather permitting,
tot Shabbat, barbecue,
and services outside. 411
South Little Tor Road,
off exit 10, Palisades
Interstate Parkway.
(845) 708-9181 or
office@nanuethc.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
services led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
Cantor Rica Timman
honoring volunteers
and installing its new
board, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Shabbat in Tenafly:
Rabbi Moshe Bryski,
executive director/
spiritual leader of
Chabad of the Conejo in
Agoura Hills, Calif., is the
guest rabbi at Lubavitch
on the Palisades to
mark the Lubavitcher
rebbes 21st yahrzeit. At
7:30 p.m., after dinner,
he will discuss The Hero
In You. On Shabbat
morning at 10:30 a.m.,
he will talk about The
Power of Hope; at
noon, The Legacy of
the Lubavitcher Rebbe:
The Infinite Value of the
Individual Jew, and at
7 p.m., Climbing Your
Mountain. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152, www.
chabadlubavitch.org/
shabbaton.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers a
musical Shabbat service
led by Rabbi Steven
Sirbu and Cantor Ellen
Tilem with the Temple
Emeth band, 8 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Saturday
JUNE 20
Rinat Yisrael hosts the

Wandering Que, a kosher
pop-up smokehouse
barbecue with a large
Texas-style woodburning smoker, in
the shuls parking lot,
12:15-9 p.m. Barbecue
menu features awardwinning pulled and
sliced brisket (platters
and sandwiches), ribs,
chicken, turkey legs, hot
dogs/sausages, chili,
cholent, lamb belly,
bacon baked-beans,
soup, key limeade,
and side dishes. 389
West Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
Monday
JUNE 22
JUNE 24
Rabbi Arthur Weiner

Biomedical ethics:
Rabbi Arthur Weiner of
the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah begins a fourweek class, Biomedical
Ethics: Death, Dying,
Tradition, and Science,
at 3 and 8:15 p.m. East
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Friday
JUNE 26
Shabbat in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah hosts an open
house/barbecue/family
service for potential
members and its Hebrew
school families, 6 p.m.
Families with children
under age 13 are
welcome. Rain or shine.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7733, Howie,
hblesq@yahoo.com, or
www.jccparamus.org.
Sunday
JUNE 28
Military mah jongg in
New City: The West
Dr. Shalom Kelman

Shabbat in Teaneck:
Neuro-ophthalmologist
Dr. Shalom Kelman
will be Congregation
Rinat Yisraels weekend
scholar-in-residence.
Tonight at 6:55 p.m.,
he will discuss The
Temple Honor Guard
and the Mystery of the
Ketoret. After Mincha,
his topic will be The
Korbanot of Sukkot: Their
Number and Order.
389 W. Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795 or www.
rinat.org.
Feature film: The Kaplen

JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly screens Women
in Love, 7:30 p.m., as
part of a series, Top
Films You May Have
Missed (or Want to See
Again). Harold Chapler
introduces the film and
leads the discussion
afterward. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493.
Tuesday
JUNE 23
Meet the author:
Rosanne Weston, a firsttime published author
in her 70s, will discuss
her work of fiction,
The Glory and Other
Stories, at a meeting of
Clarkstown Jewish
Center hosts military mah
jongg, where players
move from table to table,
with lunch, refreshments,
and prizes, noon.
195 West Clarkstown
Road, New City, N.Y.
(845) 352-0017.
Hadassah meets in
Paramus: TriBoro
Hadassah meets to
celebrate its 40th
anniversary at a
luncheon at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 1 p.m.
There will be a special
commemoration
honoring the late
Yvette Tekel, a past
chapter president, by
her daughter-in-law, Jill.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 384-8005.
Tuesday
JUNE 30
Book club in Paramus:
Phyllis Waterstone
facilitates a discussion
on The Paris Architect
by Charles Belfoure at
the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 7 p.m.
Refreshments. East
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Singles
Friday
JUNE 26
Shabbat weekend:
Modern Orthodox/
Machmir singles,
20s-30s, are welcome
to a Shabbat Singles
Shabbaton in
Bergenfield. Weekend
includes guest speakers
Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger
of Congregation Beth
Abraham in Bergenfield;
Dr. Shani Ratzker, author
of Finding Your Bashert
and the Survival Guide
to Shidduchim; health
coach and dating
mentors Gila and Carl
Guzman of Teaneck;
shalosh seudot, and
musical Melavah
Malkah kumsitz with
David Ross from Shir
Soul, Maccabeats, and
Voices for Israel. $125
in advance/$130 at
door includes all meals.
Hosted by RZ Ruchlamer
and Dr. Shani Ratzker.
(201) 522-4776, rzr18k@
gmail.com or www.
bethabraham.org.
Sunday
JUNE 28
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meet for a social
bagels and lox brunch
at the JCC Rockland,
11 a.m. All are welcome,
particularly if you are
from Hudson, Passaic,
Bergen, or Rockland
counties. 450 West
Nyack Road. $10. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
Program to examine
anti-Israel movement
Whitewater
rafting trip
CAMERA the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America offers a program,
The Anti-Israel Movement on College Campuses
What You Need to Know and How to Respond,
on Wednesday, June 24 at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. The program begins at 6
p.m., with a private reception with Danny Ayalon, the former Israeli ambassador to the United
States, who is the evenings keynote speaker.
Dr. Charles Jacobs, the co-founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance; Gilad Skolnick,
CAMERAs director of campus programming; Avi
Posnick, the managing director of StandWithUs in
New York, and Elizabeth Bier, a pro-Israel student
activist, also will speak.
For information, call Lori Posin at (516) 4844848 or email her at lori@camera.org.
Join congregants from Fair Lawns

Temple Beth Sholom on Sunday, June
28, for its 26th annual Delaware River
Gourmet Rafting Trip.
Carpools leave the shul at 7 a.m. and
return at about 7 p.m. The cost is $125
and includes a gourmet kosher lunch,
transportation, and rafting costs. For
information or to make reservations,
call (201) 797-9321.
Danny Ayalon
Community
education
conference
The second annual Teaneck Community
Education Conference will be held on June
28 at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun. The
conference will include 35 major organizations and schools in the Bergen County
area and will feature more than 25 educators and communal leaders.
It is free and all are welcome. For
a schedule of the program and more
information, go to www.facebook.com/
TeaneckCommunityEducationProgram.
Kaplen JCC seeks artists

for its gallery exhibition
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly is looking for artists interested
in exhibiting their work for the 20152016 calendar year. The JCCs monthly
art shows, featuring the work of painters, photographers, digital artists, and
other creative visual artists, is displayed
on the walls of the JCCs Waltuch Art Gallery. The focus of the gallery is to exhibit
thematically Jewish artwork or art produced by Jewish artists.
All exhibits include a meet-the-artist
reception hosted by the artist, who buys
food for the party through the JCC Cafe.
The JCC provides coffee, tea, and paper
goods.
All work on exhibit is for sale, and a
portion of the proceeds goes to support
JCC programming. To be considered for
a solo exhibition, send a brief bio and

artists statement, the title of the show,
and its theme; three or four high resolution jpegs of the work that will be shown
(and, if you have a website with images,
include the URL), and the works price
range.
A JCC committee that meets twice a
year will select artists for exhibitions.
Exhibits run from four to eight weeks.
The JCC publicizes all shows and receptions in local newspapers and websites,
as well as in JCC brochures and newsletters. The exhibits are open and art can
be bought during the JCCs business
hours.
Send submissions to Ruth Yung at
ryung@jccotp.org. For information, call
(201) 408-1408.
Tee off with YJCC and Moriah

The Bobbie Berkley YJCC Golf Outing, in
memory of golf enthusiast and avid Bergen County YJCC supporter Bobbie Berkley, will be held on Monday, July 13, at
the Manhattan Woods Golf Club in West
Nyack, N.Y. The outing begins at 9:30
a.m. with registration and brunch, followed by a shotgun start at 11:30. Cocktails and dinner are at 5 p.m. Prizes will
be awarded in various contests.
Howard Haber, Steve Merson, and William Rose are chairing the outing. For
information, call Ashley Warren at (201)
666-6610, ext. 5832, or email awarren@
yjcc.org.
The Moriah School in Englewood will

host its 12th annual Golf, Tennis &
Cycling Outing on Monday, August 10,
at Edgewood Country Club in River
Vale from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Each year Moriah holds an online
auction to help raise additional funds.
The auction will be held from August
5 through 9, at www.bididngforgood.
com/moriah.
Items include tickets to major sporting events and concerts, golf foursomes, beauty treatments, childrens
classes and camps, personal training
packages, travel-related items, and
local shopping and restaurants.
For information on Moriah or the
Golf, Tennis & Cycling Outing, call Nila
Lazarus, the schools development
director, at (201) 567-0208, ext. 373, or
email her at nlazarus@moriahschool.
org. To register for the dinner, go to
www.moriahgolf.org.
Adults learning in a JCC computer class. COURTESY JCCOTP
Computer learning for adults

The EGL Foundation Computer Center for Adults 40+ at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly is enrolling for
classes taught by experienced instructors and volunteers. Courses will begin
on July 8. An open house and orientation
will be on Tuesday, June 30, at 10:30 a.m.
Refreshments will be served.
The open house includes information
about interesting websites, the opportunity to win a free computer course, and
a free practice session with hands-on
instruction and coaching.
Classes are small and meet once
or twice a week in the fully equipped
computer facility. Each student uses an

individual computer with the Windows
operating system and receives a detailed
course manual. Flash drives are used in
class and are available at a discounted
rate. Students are encouraged to own a
computer to reinforce the information
they learn at the JCC. A weekly two-hour
free supervised practice session is available with every course.
Those who register by July 2 will
receive a 20 percent discount on classes.
Call Arielle at (201) 569-7900, ext. 309,
email mschaffer@jccotp.org, or go to
www.jccotp.org.
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Kevin Pillars a big hit

Blue Jays outfielders vital to baseballs hottest team
HILLEL KUTTLER
BALTIMORE Two tattoos sandwich several others along the left arm of Toronto
Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar.
One near the shoulder reads 8-14-13,
the date of Pillars major league debut.
The bottom one shows a nautical compass
in tribute to his grandfather, Ed Lambert,
who often took his grandson on his boats
and taught him how to sail.
Pillar, a Los Angeles native, cherishes
the memories of those Southern California trips. Theyd set out from Coronado,
the San Diego-area port where Lambert
kept his yacht and a sailboat. His grandfather, Pillar said, was a smart man an
accountant, teacher and real-estate professional near Palm Springs who attended his
grandsons games.
Lambert fell at home and suffered head
trauma during Pillars first season with the
Blue Jays. Pillar went home to see him just
before his grandfather died.
The last thing he told me was he was
proud of me. It meant the world to me to
have him see me put a major league uniform on and play [on television], Pillar
said, in a recent interview at his locker
before a game against the Orioles here.
Pillar is now in his third season with
the Blue Jays, who have enjoyed smooth
sailing of late: Toronto has won 11 straight
games in the past week and a half, to vault
into contention in the American League
East.
In his first season as a regular player, Pillar has contributed with both his glove and
his bat.
The 26-year-old is second on the hardhitting club in games (hes missed just one
of the first 64), at bats, and hits; he is tied
for the lead with nine stolen bases, and his
Kevin Pillar, hitting against the Baltimore Orioles in a game on May 12, 2015, has shown his prowess at bat and in the field
this season for the Toronto Blue Jays.
PHOTOS BY HILLEL KUTTLER
.251 batting average has risen nearly 30

points in recent weeks. Earlier this month,
at the start of the winning streak, Pillar
homered twice and singled against Washington and its ace pitcher, 2013 Cy Young
Award winner Max Scherzer.
His prowess at the plate isnt surprising:
Pillar set an NCAA Division II record with
a 54-game hitting streak in 2010 with California State University, Dominguez Hills,
and batted .367 over his four years there.
In the minors he had a batting average of
.323 after being drafted in the 32nd round.
But it has been on defense that he has
Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar displays the nautical compass tattoo
that is a tribute to his grandfather.
surprised some observers, making several

outstanding catches that have landed him
on highlight shows.
For the majority of my minor league
career, my offense definitely overshadowed what I was able to do on defense,
Pillar said. And in [the major leagues],
my offense has struggled, so I dont think
people paid much attention to what I was
able to do defensively.
Two plays in 2015 especially stand out.
There was the catch in Toronto against
the Tampa Bay Rays in which Pillar
stretched over the 10-foot-high wall
planting his right foot about halfway up to
propel himself to pull back a home run.
Two weeks later, in Cleveland, he sprinted
into right-center field and crashed into the
fence to take away an Indians extra-base
hit.
Going through that stretch when I
made some pretty fantastic catches, I think
its not only opened the eyes of my teammates and coaching staff, but all of baseball that I play the outfield well, he said.
His manager, John Gibbons, said the
baseball world has woken up to him.
Hes on those [ESPN] Web Gems. Its
not happening by mistake, said Gibbons,
who had started Pillar in left field but now
has him in center field only. Hes a heck
of an outfielder.
Pillar was at it again Sunday in Boston,
dashing from deep center field to snag a fly
ball about to drop in to right-center.
Teammate Russell Martin, a catcher,
calls Pillar a blue-collar, hard-nosed
competitor. Everything hes accomplished

is through hard work.
Even his opponents are noticing: Orioles All-Star centerfielder Adam Jones
said of Pillar, I love how he approaches
the game.
Pillar is taking nothing for granted, saying that playing in the majors is a dream
come true. Its what Ive worked for my
whole life.
A teammates spring training injury put
Pillar into the starting lineup.
I took the mindset that every day Id
prove that Im worthy of playing every day
and help the team win games, he said.
His mother, Wendy, said her son can
never get enough of baseball. Even his
offseason includes rigorous training.
After starring in basketball and as a
two-way player in football, Pillar devoted
himself to baseball late in high school, she
said.
It was his moms family that provided
Pillars Jewish influence: Wendys mother
and maternal grandparents were observant and lived in the Los Angeles suburbs.
The family didnt affiliate with a synagogue, but Pillar and his elder brother,
Michael, participated in bar mitzvah prep
classes.
Now Pillar has his sights set on playing
for Israel in next years World Baseball
Classic; he said he wasnt contacted in
time for the 2012 tournament.
With his maternal grandmother, Leila,
80, in mind, Pillar said it would be a great
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Obituaries
Lillian Brown
Lillian Brown, 92, of Boca Raton, Fla., formerly of Fair

Lawn and Wyckoff, died on June 11.
Predeceased by her husband, Howard, and a daughter, Paula, she is survived by a son, Ken, daughter, Alison
Glass; five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the National Inclusion Project. Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Obituaries are prepared with information
provided by funeral homes. Correcting errors is
the responsibility of the funeral home.
Gloria Byer
Gloria Byer, ne Friedman, 89, of Fair Lawn died on

June 9.
Before retiring, she was a social worker and a speech
language therapist. She was a founding member of
Temple Beth Sholom and its sisterhood, a member of
National Council of Jewish Women, and a volunteer for
Meal on Wheels, all in Fair Lawn.
Predeceased by her husband, Samuel, and a sister,
Eunice Mason, she is survived by sons, David (Moira)
and Steven (the late Joan); two grandchildren; sister-inlaw, Dolly Byer, and nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Donations can be made to the Epilepsy Foundation
of Greater New York. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
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Hamas reportedly mulls

5-year truce with Israel for
floating Gaza seaport
Hamas leaders are mulling a possible five-year cease-fire
with Israel, the Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper reported.
Israeli media confirmed that Hamas leader Moussa Abu
Marzouk arrived in the Qatari capital of Doha on Saturday
to meet with fellow Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, who
lives in Qatar, and other officials of the Gaza-ruling Palestinian terror group.
The truce, which is being backed by Qatar and Turkey, stipulates that Hamas halts fire against Israel for five
years in exchange for Israel allowing the construction of
a floating seaport off the Gaza coast. The proposed port
would be inspected by Israeli and international supervisors. But Israel has previously argued that a seaport
would be used by Hamas for smuggling in weapons to
JNS.ORG
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Entering race, Jeb Bush vows

to rebuild U.S.-Israel friendship
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush officially joined the
crowded 2016 presidential race, which now has 11 contenders on the Republican side. In remarks at Miami-Dade
College announcing his candidacy, Bush included a vow to
rebuild American relations with Israel, which have seen
more tension than usual under President Barack Obama.
I will rebuild our vital friendships, he said. That
starts by standing with the brave, democratic state of
Israel.
Coming from a family that produced two U.S. presidents, Bush has a warm relationship with the Jewish community of Florida, where he has governor from 1999 to
2007. He has been scrutinized by some pro-Israel observers for the presence of former secretary of state James
Baker a vocal critic of Israel on his team of 21 foreign
policy advisers. But when Baker blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for diplomatic missteps and
political gamesmanship in remarks at this years J Street
conference, Bush said through a spokesperson that he
disagrees with the sentiments [Baker] expressed and
pledged unwavering support for Netanyahu.
In March, Fred Zeidman, a Houston businessman and
Republican fundraiser who is close to the Bush family,
said that Bush has certainly never given any indication
that he wont be as strong of a supporter [of Israel] as his
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brother [former president George W. Bush].
Anti-Israel former lawmaker

Galloway to run for London mayor
Anti-Israel former United Kingdom parliament member
George Galloway will enter the race to become the next mayor
of London.
Im running because I want to represent every piece of the
mosaic of this city which I have called home for 35 years, Galloway said, The Guardian reported.
Galloway hopes to replace Mayor Boris Johnson of the Conservative Party in 2016.
Last month, Galloway blamed racists and Zionists for
an election loss to Labour Member of Parliament Naseem
Shah. Last year, he declared his city of Bradford as an Israelfree zone, in which Israeli tourists, academics, and products
are not welcome. Galloway has also vigorously supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying that Israel and al-Qaeda
not Assad are responsible for using chemical weapons on
JNS.ORG
Syrian civilians.
Cypriot, Israeli leaders emphasize

common threats in Jerusalem meetings
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Israeli leaders
emphasized their nations shared challenges while holding
meetings in Jerusalem.
Israel and Cyprus are both small countries and share
common threats in the shape of radical Islam, Iran, and the
ongoing conflict in Syria, to name but a few, Israeli President
Reuven Rivlin told reporters on Monday, adding that Cyprus
has always been a quiet partner for peace.
Anastasiades said, Cyprus and Israel are geographical
neighbors, which could partly account for our close relationship. But our friendship extends beyond that. We share common democratic values, and share many concerns, which is
why we have grown to rely on each others assistance.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Anastasiades that much of the terrorism in the Middle East is fomented
by Iran that, along with its henchmen in Hezbollah, operate a
worldwide terrorism network of over 30 countries in five continents. In 2012, a Lebanese-Swedish Hezbollah terrorist was
arrested in Cyprus for plotting to kill Israelis. Another Hezbollah plot was thwarted last month when Cypriot authorities arrested a Lebanese-Canadian man over his possession of
alleged bomb-making materials, including ammonium nitrate
fertilizer.
Anastasiades also met with Greek Patriarch Theophilos III
of Jerusalem, who said the historic course of the island of
Cyprus, which is experiencing hardship, is interwoven with
the course of the Middle East in general and the Holy Land in
JNS.ORG
particular, according to the Cyprus Mail.
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A summer siddur
Koren Publishers new Ani Tefilla Summer
Camp Siddur and Humash is an all-in-one
volume for the entire summer season. Due to
high demand from camp directors, parents,
and students alike, this new siddur includes
complete prayers for weekdays and Shabbat,
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and Book of Lamentations for the fasts of the
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WIZO puts bounce

into benefit for
Israeli Services
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, June 22, children
can enjoy three hours of fun at BounceU in Paramus, while you support the New Jersey chapter of
the Womens International Zionist Organization.
The $18 admission includes unlimited access to
all giant inflatable rides, including two-story slides,
obstacle courses, a spider climb, a sports arena,
and more.
Parents enter free and children must be a least
1 year old.
There will be balloon twisters, glitter tattoo artists, and free kosher pizza and drinks. There also
will be special appearances from licensed famous
characters, who will pose with your children.
There will also be a cash bar offering cotton
candy, ice cream, and pizza and drinks for the
adults.
WIZO is one of the most important women organization in the world, with 250,000 members in
50 countries. Next to the Israeli government, WIZO
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BounceU Paramus is at 70 Eisenhower Drive.
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Robert Rey, president and chief executive officer of NVE Bank, has
announced the appointment of William Cho to the newly created
position of Electronic Banking/System Specialist in the Englewoodbased community mutual banks executive office.
Mr Cho has been with NVE Bank since September 2007 and most
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NVE Bank, established in 1887, offers an extensive range of personal
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The Gym fundraiser
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veterans home
Montvale and Englewood
branches contribute $12,000
to aid porch renovation
The recent Memorial Day celebrations remind everyone how important it is not only to honor those who
made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country,
but also to help veterans who suffered service-related
disabling injuries.
Last November, the Gym hosted several events to
raise money for Homes for Veterans, a nonprofit organization dedicated to adapting disabled veterans homes
to make them handicap-accessible and barrier free.
Now, the $12,000 raised and donated by the Gym
has helped to restore and make necessary improvements to the Newark home of Sgt. James Bellamy.
I was honored to meet Air Force veteran Sergeant
James Bellamy, a decorated patriot, and thank him for
his extraordinary devotion to duty during the Vietnam
War, said M. Sgt. James Siletti, USAF retired after 22
years of active duty and now a personal trainer at the
Gym. The Gyms staff and members displayed true
grit in rallying to make a difference for a fellow American in need.
Sgt. Bellamy, a Vietnam veteran, suffered a servicerelated spinal injury that resulted in complications
and illnesses. His disability left him unable to walk,
requiring him to rely on an electric scooter as his primary means of transportation. The wooden porch of
his house, which is old, had deteriorated badly, and
was straining under the weight of the scooter.
Sgt. Bellamy served his country with honor. He was
there when we needed him to protect us and now, we
had the opportunity to show him we appreciate his
service, said Doug DiPaolo, founder of Homes for
Veterans. It warms my heart to see how much the
employees and members of the Gym care for our
troops, and how much they respect our veterans for
their service.
Using the money raised by the Gyms month-long
November fundraiser, a contractor hired by Homes
for Veterans recently completed a $16,450 renovation to repair the front porch of Sgt. Bellamys home.
The work augmented the recent installation of a
mechanized wheelchair lift funded by the Veterans
Administration.
We had a great time hosting these fundraising
events for Homes for Veterans and its so wonderful to
see all they were able to do for Sergeant Bellamy as a
result. Wed love to help do the same for another veteran soon, said Lisa Bruchalski, group fitness director
at the Gym of Montvale.
Nurit Chasman, group fitness director at the Gym
of Englewood added, We were so pleased to have a
hand in contributing to this very important cause. Seeing the improvements that Homes for Veterans was
able to make to Sergeant Bellamys home makes it all
worthwhile. We look forward to collaborating with
them again in the future.
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Fashion show raises $185,000 for Holy Names Multiple Sclerosis Center
More than 500 people attended the 18th
Annual Holy Name Medical Center Foundation Spring Fashion Fling, which raised
over $185,000 for the Multiple Sclerosis
Center. The funds will be used for patient
care and research
The event, on April 26 at the Glenpointe Marriott, featured an afternoon
luncheon with an auction and fashion
show. Most of the designs were provided
by Lord & Taylor at The Fashion Center.
Chris Cimino, WNBC-TV meteorologist,
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show host, was the Honorary MS Ambassador and recorded a video message for
the event.
The fashion show helps to support the
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healthy trees and storms, concluding
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strong roots that will allow us as professionals and individuals to survive the
storms of life. Weve made a school and a
community that are built to last.
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we will continue to make extraordinarily
valuable contributions to the community
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aging, and Jewish social services.
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trips to Albany and Washington, D.C., to
support the interests of social workers,
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